Please feel free to record your feature request in JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2
Gary On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:47 AM, COHEN, STEVEN M <sc1...@att.com> wrote: > Thanks, that almost works for me, and will have to do, I suppose. The > problem is that I was hoping to be able to load each subconfig in first, > filtering in any property definitions, which would then lead to writable > output that would not contain properties, but their expanded values. It > would seem that with this approach, it would almost be better to not use > properties at all in the subconfigs. > > I guess this would have to be a feature request, but in the meantime I > might give CompositeConfiguration a try. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Sicker [mailto:boa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:34 AM > To: Log4J Users List <log4j-user@logging.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Copying appenders and loggers from a confgiruation to a > builder > > I don't believe there is an API in ConfigurationBuilder that uses actual > plugin objects. That would certainly be a new feature. However, you did > mention combining configuration files which is already implemented through > composite configuration: > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html# > CompositeConfiguration > > On 17 November 2016 at 09:29, COHEN, STEVEN M <sc1...@att.com> wrote: > > > I am trying to construct a program that basically reads a bunch of > > log4j2 configuration files and combines them into one, writing this > > back to disk using the new > > ConfigurationBuilder.writeXmlConfiguration(OutputStream) > > method. > > > > But I run up against what seems to me to be a gap in the API unless I > > am missing something: > > Having created a ConfigurationBuilder for the destination file and > > having read one of the to-be-combined configuration files into a > > Configuration object, there appears to be nothing in the > > ConfigurationBuilder interface that would allow, say, one of the > > appenders from the read-in configuration to be copied, as a whole > > object,into the builder, short of deconstructing it down to its > constituent elements and adding them one by one. > > > > Is there a way to copy an appender from one configuration to another > > without drilling down into all its constituent parts? And similarly, > > a way to copy a logger from one configuration to another without > > drilling down to its constituent parts? Or must I write all this code > myself? > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617290459/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617290459&linkCode=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=cadb800f39946ec62ea2b1af9fe6a2b8> <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1617290459> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182021&linkCode=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=31ecd1f6b6d1eaf8886ac902a24de418%22> <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1935182021> Spring Batch in Action <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182951/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182951&linkCode=%7B%7BlinkCode%7D%7D&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=%7B%7Blink_id%7D%7D%22%3ESpring+Batch+in+Action> <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1935182951> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
