Extends from PeriodicRotatingFileHandler

[suikast42]

Hi guys,

I want to extend the behaviour of PeriodicRotatingFileHandler. For that I create a jboss module and extends from PeriodicRotatingFileHandler and override only

  @Override

  protected void preWrite(ExtLogRecord record){

    super.preWrite(record);

    deleteOldFiles();

  }

<custom-handler name="MyAppender" class="myg.handler.PeriodicRotatingFileHandlerExtended" module="my.libs">
               
                <formatter>
                    <pattern-formatter pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n"/>
                </formatter>
                <properties>
                     <property name="relativeTo" value="${jboss.server.log.dir}/app"/>
                    <property name="file" value="Application.log"/>
                    <property name="suffix" value=".yyyy-MM-dd"/>
                    <property name="maxBackupDays" value="2" /> <!-- This is my needed feature -->
                    <property name="append" value="true"/>
                </properties>
            </custom-handler>

I can debug this handler. It semms so thats works fine but my logfile is everytime empty.  Did I miss something ??

[suikast42]

Its strange very strange.  I don't understand the the lifecycle of the handlers.

If I do this :

  @Override

  protected void doPublish(ExtLogRecord record){

      try {

        fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(getFile(), true);

        setOutputStream(fileOutputStream);

      } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

        e.printStackTrace();

      }

    super.doPublish(record);

  }

then the handler writes the entries in the file otherwise its empty .

[suikast42]

After I switch to 7.2.0.Final I can use log4j appenders as custom-logger. So my problem is solved.