[logback-user] Serialization improvement

[ceki]

Hi Alf,

The parent and childrenList fields in Logger should not be serialized. 
Could you please create a jira issue regarding this bug?

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Ceki
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On 04.04.2013 12:55, Alf Kristian Støyle wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> First off, my first mail on the mailinglist, thanks for logback, it is
> awesome :)
>
> We had a problem in our project that our serialized object graph was way
> too large.
>
> After digging, we found that a referenced ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger
> was the cause. A serialized object was about 27 kB, after making the
> referenced logger static, the serialized size was about 4,7kB
>
> ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger has several transient fields, but parent
> and childrenList are not. My guess is that when serializing a logger,
> you then implicitly serialize every referenced logger inn the logger
> tree. Am I correct?
>
> Since the readResolve method is only dependent on name, every field
> could be made transient, problem solved?
>
> Cheers,
> Alf
>