[logback-dev] While you are working on FileAppenders... was: Question about a custom binary file appender.

[Joern Huxhorn]

Hi Ceki.

I've seen that you are working on the FileAppenders again. Have you  
seen this mail I wrote? What do you think about it?

Joern.

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> From: Joern Huxhorn <jhuxhorn at googlemail.com>
> Date: 23. April 2009 18:38:38 MESZ
> To: logback developers list <logback-dev at qos.ch>
> Subject: Question about a custom binary file appender.
>
> Hi Ceki.
>
> I'd like to implement a file appender that writes the binary Lilith
> format, i.e. gzipped protobuf-serialized events, instead of Strings.
> I'd also like to have the same functionality that's supported by
> RollingFileAppender right now.
>
> Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to simply write bytes  
> instead of
> a String. How would you go from here?
> Reimplementing everything from the start seems to be a pretty bad  
> idea.
>
> What do you think about enhancing the RFA so it's using byte[] instead
> of Strings? The current behavior could be implemented using those
> methods + string.getBytes("UTF-8") or CharsetEncoder...
>
> Any idea, suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Joern.
>

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