Thank you Ceki! I called start() in the CatAppender constructor and everything is now working. Are there recommended practices as to when (and from where) to call start() and stop()? Thanks again so much! Best, Zac On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:14 PM Ceki Gülcü <ceki@qos.ch> wrote:
Hello Zac,
AppenderBase will not invoke the append() method less the appender has the started flag set to true.
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On 7/25/2022 6:38 PM, Zac Harvey wrote:
Java 11 and logback-classic-1.2.11 here. I'm trying to write my own custom appender and am following this Baeldung article <https://www.baeldung.com/custom-logback-appender> to test it out.
My *src/main/java/myapp/logging/CatAppender* appender (on the runtime classpath):
public class CatAppender extends AppenderBase<ILoggingEvent> { @Override protected void append(ILoggingEvent eventObject) { System.out.println("meow"); } }
My *src/main/resources/logback.xml*:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration debug="true">
<appender name="cat" class="myapp.logging.CatAppender"/>
<root level="info"> <appender-ref ref="cat" /> </root>
</configuration>
In my *build.gradle* I specify to use logback and Lombok:
plugins { id "io.freefair.lombok" version '6.4.0' }
dependencies { implementation ( 'ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.2.11' ,'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.16' ) }
And then in my Java code I use Lombok to inject an SLF4J logger like so:
@Slf4j public class SomethingDoer {
public void doSomething() { log.info <http://log.info>("this should invoke the CatAppender..."); }
}
But when *SomethingDoer#doSomething()* runs, I don't see a meow printed to my STDOUT console. Have I wired anything up incorrectly here?
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