I have a need to dynamically adjust appenders at run-time to use a custom Layout. What I really want is to have encoder-less appenders set up (via the config file) and then add the appropriate LayoutWrappingEncoder programmatically. This works fine for a basic FileAppender. *However*, this fails for a ConsoleAppender, or (interestingly) for a FileAppender created dynamically by a SiftingAppender. (You get errors that an encoder has to be set and that the init method can&#39;t be invoked.)<div>
<br></div><div>Is there a reason for this inconsistency? I suspect it might just be that there is inconsistent handling internally of when an appender is started(??). (I assume the init method that is being referred to in the error messages is start().)<br>
<div><br></div><div><div>(The context is that this is logging from a simulation. I want all log messages to be prefixed with the simulation time, which is something that is only available within the application, and differs per logged message. I guess I could use a SimTime MDC key which is updated before each message logged, but that&#39;s a bit clumsy. Doing it generically inside a Layout, independent of the rest of the simulation code, is much better.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stuart</div><div><br>-- <br>________________________________<div>Stuart Rossiter</div><div><br></div><div></div><div><br></div>
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