[logback-user] Custom Appender Configuration using generic Properties

28 Jul 2016

      Hi,

I have developed a custom appender for logback and would like to configure it with a generic set of Properties that I can pass on to the underlying libraries. Rather than create a Getter and Setter for each property that the underlying library uses, I would like the configuration to read the *names* of the properties out of the logback configuration file.

Instead of this:

<configuration>

    <appender name="theCustomAppender" class="domian.TheCustomAppender">

        <getterSetterProperty>value</getterSetterProperty>

    </appender>

</configuration>

I would like to write something like this:

<configuration>

    <appender name="theCustomAppender" class="domian.TheCustomAppender">

        <properties class="java.util.Properties">

            <property name="thisPropertyName" value="value" />

        </properties>

    </appender>

</configuration>

Does the Joran Configurator have the capability to parse a configuration file, generate a Properties object, and then hand it off to the Appender?
I have looked around and have not been able to identify any guidance for this use case. I have discovered the nested element capability and the "class" attribute, but have not been able to build a mapped structure.

The north-west wind does feel a bit chilly, right now... :-)

Thanks,
John Page