[logback-user] Manifest Question

Adam Gent adam.gent at snaphop.com
Sun Mar 12 16:04:39 CET 2017


The appender way is the easiest way but there are bunch of caveats to that
method. We used to do it this way but needed more flexibility.

If you are going to do it the custom Appender way I recommend not using the
MDC. You also can really only have pretty static attributes.

For example for Spring MVC we actually add the routing path to the MDC and
thus the Appender would not be helpful.

Yeah you could make a unified thread local context that your custom
appender uses but that is basically what the MDC is.

There is also the tricky biz of handing of dynamic MDC information to child
threads. Again for example for every request we generate a uuid so that we
can track that request and everything it executes.

But if your attributes are mainly static I agree that the custom appender
is the route to go.... I feel stupid for not mentioning it first.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 8:51 AM, David Tkaczyk <davidtkaczyk69 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Extend your preferred appender.
>
> On Mar 12, 2017 6:59 AM, <logback-user-request at qos.ch> wrote:
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>> Subject: [logback-user] Recommendations on including manifest
>> implementation information into logging events
>> Does anyone have recommendations on how to best to add manifest
>> implementation information (Implementation-Title, Implementation-Version,
>> etc) to logback MDC trivially?
>>
>> I know this information can retrieved programmatically from a package (
>> Package.getImplementationTitle()
>> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Package.html#getImplementationTitle-->,
>> Package.getImplementationVersion()
>> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Package.html#getImplementationVersion-->,
>> etc), but I'd rather avoid having every application hardcode logic on
>> startup to determine this and stash it in MDC for later use.  I would also
>> like to avoid hard coding this information within logback.xml /
>> logback-spring.xml as the manifest is the source of truth.
>>
>> Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
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