[LOG4J2-1198] Add support for custom rollover strategy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.1
• Component/s: Appenders
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Remko Popma
• Created: 15/Nov/15 14:07
• Updated: 02/Apr/17 20:08

Description

DefaultRolloverStrategy has a very compact configuration, but as a trade-off has become a bit monolithic. I find it difficult to unit test and maintain.

Continuing in the spirit of the work done for LOG4J2-435, I would like to break out components for the different kinds of processing done by DefaultRolloverStrategy so that they can be individually configured and combined by users. Users would configure a CustomRolloverStrategy by specifying nested actions that define what needs to be done during a rollover.

The DefaultRolloverStrategy would still continue to work as current, but under the hood can delegate to these components.

At this stage the above is still just a concept. The description is to be updated when it becomes more clear if and how this would work.

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-435 Feature request: auto-delete older log files