[LOG4J2-569] Configuring RollingRandomAccessFile with HTMLLayout does not work as expected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-rc1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc2
• Component/s: Appenders, Layouts
• Labels: Rollover
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: lital kornfeld
• Created: 17/Mar/14 12:42
• Updated: 11/Jul/14 06:14
• Resolved: 11/Jul/14 06:14

Description

I'm trying to configure a rolling file appender to work with HTMLLayout:

<RollingRandomAccessFile name="RollingFile"
    fileName="logs/app.html" filePattern="logs/app-%i-%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH}.html">
    <HTMLLayout title="App log" locationInfo="true"/>
    <Policies>
    <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="12" />
    <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="10 MB" />
    <OnStartupTriggeringPolicy />
    </Policies>
    <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="100" />
</RollingRandomAccessFile>

But the outcome is not as expected. The logs are not formatted in a nice table and when I open the log file as text the HTML header is missing.

When I use FileAppender it works fine.

<File name="FileAppender" fileName="logs/agent.html">
        <HTMLLayout title="Agent log" locationInfo="true" />
</File>

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-581 No header output in RollingRandomAccessFile
• is related to: LOG4J2-675 RollingFile and RollingRandomAccessFile don't write footer before rollover