[logback-dev] [JIRA] Commented: (LBCORE-128) Please support implementation of binary log files in RollingFileAppender/FileAppender

[Joern Huxhorn (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-128?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=11526#action_11526 ] 

Joern Huxhorn commented on LBCORE-128:
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One of the benefits is that logs can be compressed while they are created, not just while rotating them. (Yes, we have really huge production logs - and we actually need them ;))

Another point is that simply serializing log events is likely performing better (depending on the serialization mechanism, obviously) than creating human-readable files and does not have to involve any loss of information.

I can decide about the human-readable format when I want to read/evaluate/work with the logs, not while writing them.
What I'd like to do is create a simple command-line app that just prints such a file in a human-readable format that is specified as an argument. It would also be possible to transform it into LOG4J XML, Lilith XML, HTML or whatever you'd like to do/need.
I'd simply implement a matching Lilith file appender that produces the same files that are used by Lilith - but that's only my use-case.

Another benefit, at least in case of my implementation, is that I only require a header and no footer. This removes the problem of malformed XML or HTML caused by missing closing tags, for example.

> Please support implementation of binary log files in RollingFileAppender/FileAppender
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LBCORE-128
>                 URL: http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCORE-128
>             Project: logback-core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Appender
>    Affects Versions: 0.9.17
>            Reporter: Joern Huxhorn
>            Assignee: Logback dev list
>
> This was discussed briefly at http://marc.info/?l=logback-dev&m=124905434331308&w=2 and I forgot to file a ticket about this.
> Currently, RandomFileAppender => FileAppender => WriterAppender is using the following method in WriterAppender to actually write the data:
> protected void writerWrite(String s, boolean flush) throws IOException
> Please add an additional method like
> protected void writerWrite(byte[] bytes, boolean flush) throws IOException
> to write to the underlying stream directly.
> writerWrite(String, boolean) could call that method after performing the transformation internally, making this change transparent for the rest of the implementation.
> Using a binary format for logfiles could have tremendous performance impact as can be seen here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lilith/wiki/SerializationPerformance

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