[LOG4J2-2431] Narrow the type returned by LogEventFactory.getEvent

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Log4j-Audit 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: Log4j-Audit 1.0.1
• Component/s: Log4j-Audit
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrei Ivanov
• Created: 04/Sep/18 12:12
• Updated: 22/Sep/18 06:28
• Resolved: 22/Sep/18 03:18

Description

Seeing that the result of LogEventFactory.getEvent is always cast to AuditEvent, I think the definition of the return type can be narrowed like this:

public static <T extends AuditEvent> T getEvent(Class<T> intrface)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3