[LOG4J2-3011] Support aliases in PropertiesUtil to ease renaming deprecated properties with new ones

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Volkan Yazici
• Created: 29/Jan/21 18:45
• Updated: 02/Dec/23 00:09
• Resolved: 02/Dec/23 00:09

Description

Certain property names don't represent the actual context of the property, but rather associate them with their deprecated legacy context. E.g., asyncLoggerThreadNameStrategy, whose actual function has nothing to do with asyncLogger anymore. Enhancing PropertiesUtil to support aliases (i.e., multiple property names) would greatly simplify renaming these properties.

See this dev mailing list thread for the related discussion.

Issue Links

• is fixed by: LOG4J2-3299 Add structured format for configuring PropertiesUtil settings