[logback-user] Logging encoded google protocol buffers with logback rolling file appender

[ceki]

Hi Dave,

A logback encoder is fundamentally binary beast. It writes to an 
OutputStream. Have you considered rolling your own Encoder to deal with 
protobuf data?


On 24.08.2012 12:30, DaveJohnston wrote:
>
> Thanks Chris,
>
> That looks like it might work what additional overhead does Anodyzed Onyx
> add to the log call?  My system is processing quite a high volume of
> traffic, so I wan't to avoid any performance costs.
>
> In my case I don't need to mix readable text with the binary data - my
> output file should just be purely binary, so maybe there is a simpler
> solution ?
>
>
> Chris Pratt wrote:
>>
>> With the Anodyzed Onyx (http://code.google.com/p/anodyzed) wrapper around
>> Logback you can use log.debug("Google Protocol
>> Buffer\n{0,binary,dump}",myBuffer); to write a Hex Dump style entry in the
>> logs.
>>    (*Chris*)
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Dave Johnston <dave.johnston at me.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to log google protocol buffers received by my server to a file,
>>> for later offline processing (the data is in a byte[]).  This is
>>> something
>>> I only do in when a debug mode is enabled, but it is useful for
>>> diagnostics.
>>>
>>> Ideally I'd like to use logback, but it doesn't seem to cater for binary
>>> data.
>>>
>>> I saw this issue: http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-232 which is marked
>>> as fix, and is a request for the same thing.  But I can't figure out how
>>> to
>>> use this with a normal rolling file appender.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any examples of doing this?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>


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