[logback-user] Sequence number

[ceki]

In your custom converter, declare a sequenceNumber as follows:

  *volatile* int sequenceNumber = 0;

increment sequenceNumber for each new event:

  sequenceNumber++;

That's it.

On 02.07.2013 23:21, Felipe wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm writing to all of you because I want to display a sequence number
> for each event. I've done some research regarding this and I know for
> sure that LogBack is not able to natively handle this as Log4j2 does
> with %sn, or as JUL partially does with getSequenceNumber() (I won't be
> changing LogBack because of this, anyway).
>
> I know for sure LogBack is lacking this functionality because of this
> issue on JIRA:
>
> http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LOGBACK-546
>
> That issue is a four years old boy now.
>
> I found a link on Stack Overflow
> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11162951/line-numbers-with-logback)
> which lead me to the following link:
>
> http://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#customConversionSpecifier
>
> I tried a static number but it was shared across threads so it didn't
> work that well. I also thought of ThreadLocal but I read a story which
> freaked me out:
>
> http://niklasschlimm.blogspot.com/2012/04/threading-stories-threadlocal-in-web.html
>
> Does anyone know of a good way to achieve sequentials?
>
> Best regards and thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Felipe
>
>


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