[logback-dev] Small LoggingEvent suggestion

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Joern,

The javadocs for getId state:

public long getId()

Returns the identifier of this Thread. The thread ID is a positive long number 
generated when this thread was created. The thread ID is unique and remains 
unchanged during its lifetime. When a thread is terminated, this thread ID may 
be reused.

Thus, the id is not guaranteed to be unique either...

Joern Huxhorn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to suggest to include thread id (in addition to the name) in
> LoggingEvent.
> I'd use a Long as the data type instead of long so it's possible to
> distinguish if it was initialized or not.
> 
> The name alone isn't guaranteed to be unique so the id wouldn't hurt, imho.
> 
> Joern.

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