[LOG4J2-2491] Allow all Appenders to optionally carry a Property array

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0, 2.11.2
• Component/s: Appenders
• Assignee: Gary D. Gregory
• Reporter: Gary D. Gregory
• Created: 29/Oct/18 16:34
• Updated: 02/Nov/18 00:37
• Resolved: 02/Nov/18 00:37

Description

Allow all Appenders to optionally carry a Property array. This allows 3rd party tooling to read and write properties for their own use.

This refactoring pulls up the properties instance variable and methods from org.apache.logging.log4j.kafka.appender.KafkaAppender.Builder to org.apache.logging.log4j.core.filter.AbstractFilterable.Builder.

This task is only applicable to Appender that implement the Builder pattern.