[logback-user] sifting appender is not compressing the last log file

26 Nov 2012

      Hello,

Similar problem was already reported about a year ago:

http://mailman.qos.ch/pipermail/logback-user/2011-November/002706.html

I wonder if the problem is going to be fixed in the upcoming version.
If not, what should be the most simple workaround?

The most disturbing scenario related to this bug is that each value of a sifting attribute creates just one log file.
The sift appender configuration is set for compression.
The bug causes the log file to be left uncompressed, therefore no files are eventually compressed at all.

       <appender name="EXECUTION-SIFT" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.sift.SiftingAppender">
              <discriminator>

                    <key>userid</key>
                     <defaultValue>noname</defaultValue>
              </discriminator>
              <sift>
                     <appender name="EXECUTION" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
                           <file>>${userid}.execution.log</file>
                           <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy">
                                  <!-- daily rollover -->

                                   <fileNamePattern>${userid}.execution.%i.log.zip</fileNamePattern>
                                  <maxIndex>100</maxIndex>
                           </rollingPolicy>
                           <triggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy">
                                  <maxFileSize>${logFile.maxSize}</maxFileSize>
                           </triggeringPolicy>
                           <encoder>
                                  <pattern>%date{yyMMdd HH:mm:ss} %-5level %msg%n</pattern>
                                  <charset>UTF-8</charset>
                           </encoder>
                     </appender>
              </sift>
       </appender>

Thanks,
   Shaul

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[logback-user] sifting appender is not compressing the last log file

Shaul Zevin