[logback-dev] RFC 5424 and Structured Data support.

[Ceki Gülcü]

Ralph Goers wrote:

> The only issue I found was with LoggingEventSerializationPerfTest. It 
> failed because averageSize exceeds averageSizeLimit. I've looked at that 
> code but for the life of me I can't understand what it is attempting to 
> validate. The size seems to be calculated by incrementing a counter 
> everyting NoopOutputStream's write method is called. My guess is that 
> this is an attempt to determine the length of the serialized data. The 
> trouble is, when I changed the output stream to a FileOutputStream and 
> serialized the object to it then size of the file was not even close to 
> the value returned by NoopOutputStream's size method.  Is that what is 
> being attempted here? What is the real value in limiting the size? When 
> I looked at the test the limit on the first test is 60 while the actual 
> is 58. With the Message object replacing the message string and 
> parameters the value is now 68.

LoggingEventSerializationPerfTest serves as a regression test. The
idea was to catch unsolicited increases (regressions) in the size of
the serialized messages. There is nothing sacred about the number 60.

> Ralph