[logback-user] Q: How to capture SocketAppender-format data to a file?

[Richard Wagner]

Hi - Sorry in advance if this is a FAQ: I didn't find an answer after searching for a while, hence this email...

On the one hand, I'm using a SocketAppender for sending serialized LoggingEventVO objects from some of my company's software (which I help develop) to a custom consumer of such events.  That works just fine.

But now I also want to configure a "logback.xml" file so that the same kind of serialized LoggingEventVO objects can alternatively be captured to a file.  We need that when either QA engineers or end-users are running the software, but do not have access to the socket server that I use (and hence can't use the SocketAppender).  The hope is that then the QA engineer or end-user could get that log file to me, and I could have my serialized event consumer read from the file, instead of getting the data from a socket connection.  Then I can diagnose that QA person's problem, or end-user's problem.


However, I don't know what particular logback XML to use.  I tried a "FileAppender" / "ObjectStreamEncoder" combination, but the file ended up being empty (whereas a simple ConsoleAppender proved there were in fact events to capture).  Here's my failed XML:

  <appender name="SERIALIZED_FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
    <file>log_output_serialized.bin</file>
    <append>false</append>
    <encoder class="ch.qos.logback.core.encoder.ObjectStreamEncoder" />
  </appender>

  <root level="ALL">
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    <appender-ref ref="SERIALIZED_FILE" />
  </root>


Do I need to write my own variant of "FileAppender":  one which (like SocketAppender) doesn't use an Encoder, but instead bakes in the code to serialize LoggingEventVO objects?


Thanks in advance,
Rich Wagner



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