Re: log4j2 2.14.0 and the mongodb4 appender

2020-11-30 Thread Gary Gregory
Hello Julian, When I created the version 4 of the MongoDB appender, I realized that for all the use cases I had and I felt were reasonable, I could use a connection string, a bit like you can in JDBC, which I could not do with a version 3 driver. There are two settings IIRC that I did not find

log4j2 2.14.0 and the mongodb4 appender

2020-11-30 Thread Julian Woodward
When the mongodb4 appender was created for log4j2, the ability to specify a factory class/method in the log4j2.xml file was removed, and the configuration option was instead reverted to requiring a simple connection string. Was there a technical reason why that needed to happen, or was it just