[logback-dev] RFC: LoggingEvent redesign

[Ceki Gulcu]

Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
> Ceki Gulcu skrev:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to split/redesign the LoggingEvent object as follows:
> Hi.
> 
> Could you elaborate on what you want to achieve?  Makes it easier to 
> evaluate your suggestion.

One important goal is to better support interoperability between logback 
versions.  For example, in a client/server situation, when a client is using a 
different version of logback than the server. Here the client is the application 
generating LoggingEvent instances and the server is the application receiving 
serialized LoggingEvent instances via the network.

A second goal is to simplify the code in LoggingEvent. If LoggingEvent instances 
do not have to worry about serialization, then LoggingEvent can be simplified. 
LoggingEventMemento needs to worry about serialization, replacing LoggingEvent 
in client/server communication.

Another goal of this RFC is to identify uses of LoggingEvent so that logback can 
cater for those use cases, possibly via new object types.

It is not clear how LoggingEventMemento would actually ensure version 
compatibility, especially if LoggingEventMemento fields change in time. However, 
as LoggingEventMemento is only a data carrying tpye, it is likely to be much 
smaller in (code) size.

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Ceki Gülcü
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