[logback-dev] RFC: LoggingEvent redesign

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen]

Ceki Gulcu skrev:
>
> The prepareForDeferredProcessing() method in the LoggingEvent class
> addresses that problem. Whenever a logging event is about to be
> serialized or transferred to another thread, you, as an author of an
> appender, are supposed to call 
> loggingEvent.prepareForDeferredProcessing().
I think that it would be appropriate to provide a flush mechanism on an 
appender (in lack of a better word) which is accessible through the 
configuration or pattern or code.

The flush mechanism would immediately run the String-flattening of the 
arguments making them safe from all these issues.  If NOT invoked, the 
flattening would happen as lazily as possible.

I believe this behaviour should be explicitly enabled, keeping the 
default of immediately Stringifying when the event has been accepted for 
logging.

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