[LOG4J2-598] Support more data types in plugin attributes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-rc1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc2
• Component/s: Core
• Labels: annotations plugins
• Assignee: Matt Sicker
• Reporter: Matt Sicker
• Created: 07/Apr/14 23:51
• Updated: 28/Aug/14 03:48
• Resolved: 25/May/14 02:07

Description

Currently, annotating plugin factory method parameters with @PluginAttribute only supports String types, but we use a lot of plugin attributes that could be automatically converted to primitive types. Now I'm not suggesting something as advanced as how Camel handles parameter injection (which does automatic non-trivial type conversion), but it would be great to support booleans, ints, longs, etc., to simplify quite a bit of extraneous string parsing.

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-652 Add plugin annotation for default values