[LOG4J2-1878] Dates in filename for RollingRandomAccessFile appender

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Appenders
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Juan Loman
• Created: 11/Apr/17 22:52
• Updated: 12/Apr/17 01:48

Description

The feature for using dates as part of the current logfile (by omitting the filename attribute and using the filepattern instead) has been implemented for RollingFileAppender (see LOG4J2-1101) but not for RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.

The following config should work:

<RollingRandomAccessFile name="Application" filePattern="logs/test.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm}.log">
    <PatternLayout pattern="%d{DATE} [%p] %X{RequestId} (%t) %c: %m%n"/>
    <Policies>
        <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
    </Policies>
    <DirectWriteRolloverStrategy/>
</RollingRandomAccessFile>

Currently it emits

ERROR No filename was provided for FileAppender with name Application

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-1101 Date based file appender