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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