logback / LOGBACK-1582 [Open] CompositeConverters children are not given Context ============================== Here's what changed in this issue in the last few minutes. This issue has been created This issue is now assigned to you. View or comment on issue using this link https://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-1582 ============================== Issue created ------------------------------ Bill Koch created this issue on 11/Oct/21 4:56 PM Summary: CompositeConverters children are not given Context Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.2.6 Assignee: Logback dev list Components: logback-core Created: 11/Oct/21 4:56 PM Priority: Major Reporter: Bill Koch Description: With a logback.xml configuration like this:   {code:java} <configuration> <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"> <encoder> <pattern>[%thread] %-5level - %msg%n%replace(%rootException{5 , sun.reflect , java.lang , java.util , org.gradle , com.sun , org.junit}){'\\n', '~~'}%nopexception</pattern> </encoder> </appender> <logger name="test" level="debug" additivity="false"> <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/> </logger> <root level="error"> <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/> </root> </configuration> {code}     Logback throws a NullPointerException on startup: {code:java} 10:52:50,790 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter@11:19 - RuntimeException in Action for tag [encoder] java.lang.NullPointerException10:52:50,790 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter@11:19 - RuntimeException in Action for tag [encoder] java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.NullPointerException at at ch.qos.logback.classic.pattern.ThrowableProxyConverter.start(ThrowableProxyConverter.java:75) at at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.ConverterUtil.startConverters(ConverterUtil.java:37) at at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.ConverterUtil.startConverters(ConverterUtil.java:33) at at ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.PatternLayoutBase.start(PatternLayoutBase.java:89) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder.start(PatternLayoutEncoder.java:28){code} ============================== This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.8.0#808000-sha1:e2c7e59)