[LOG4J2-124] Gracefully stopping LogContext using the api interfaces

• Type: Question
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta3
• Fix Version/s: 2.6
• Component/s: API
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Szabolcs Beki
• Created: 19/Nov/12 19:34
• Updated: 24/Jan/16 18:37
• Resolved: 24/Jan/16 18:37

Description

I'm trying to gracefully close my SocketAppender before exiting the my application to avoid IOExceptions on the socket server side.

Currently I can make it only by using interface the org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Lifecycle interface in the Log4j2 core :

((Lifecycle) LogManager.getContext()).stop();

I would prefer to have a cleaner solution that uses solely the Log4j-api not Log4j-core.

Did I overlook something or stop() on the API side really missing ?