[logback-dev] RFC: LoggingEvent redesign

[Ceki Gulcu]

Thank you for sharing this example which illustrates the point quite well.

Ralph Goers wrote:

> 
> Yes and no. The API would be a call like logger.logEvent(EventData 
> data);  EventData is really just a Map with a few extra methods. Under 
> the hood the event data gets serialized to XML as the "message" but the 
> EventData map is still passed as a parameter. Then when the Appender 
> gets the LoggingEvent it can first check for the map being present. If 
> it is it can just use it and the serialized XML just gets ignored. 
> Otherwise we have to go through the expense of reconstructing the map 
> from the message. If one of the out-of-the box Appenders is used then 
> the map will be ignored and only the serialized map is recorded, but if 
> someone wants to write a custom appender it will save quite a bit of 
> overhead in not having to reconstruct the EventData map on every audit 
> event.
> 
> Ralph

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