Log4j Spring Boot Support
This module provides enhanced support for Spring Boot beyond what Spring Boot itself provides.
Overview
The components in this module require a Spring Environment to have been created. Spring Boot applications initialize logging multiple times. The first initialization occurs before any initialization work is performed by Spring, thus no Environment will have been created and the components implemented in this module will not produce the desired results. Subsequent initializations of logging will have a Spring Environment.
Usage
Spring Lookup
The Spring Lookup allows configuration files to reference properties defined in Spring configuration files from a Log4j configuration file. For example:
<property name="applicationName">${spring:spring.application.name}</property>
would set the Log4j applicationName property to the value of spring.application.name set in the Spring configuration.
Spring Property Source
Log4j uses property sources when resolving properties it uses internally. This support allows most of Log4j’s Configuration properties to be specified in the Spring Configuration. However, some properties that are only referenced during the first Log4j initialization, such as the property Log4j uses to allow the default Log4j implementation to be chosen, would not be available.
Spring Profile Arbiter
New with Log4j 2.15.0 are "Arbiters" which are conditionals that can cause a portion of the Log4j configuration to be included or excluded. log4j-spring-boot provides an Arbiter that allows a Spring profile value to be used for this purpose. Below is an example:
<Configuration name="ConfigTest" status="ERROR" monitorInterval="5">
<Appenders>
<SpringProfile name="dev | staging">
<Console name="Out">
<PatternLayout pattern="%m%n"/>
</Console>
</SpringProfile>
<SpringProfile name="prod">
<List name="Out">
</List>
</SpringProfile>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Logger name="org.apache.test" level="trace" additivity="false">
<AppenderRef ref="Out"/>
</Logger>
<Root level="error">
<AppenderRef ref="Out"/>
</Root>
</Loggers>
</Configuration>