grailsgroovylog4jpattern-layout

Ho to use xml or html layout with the Grails Log4j DSL

I am traying to get log4j to log to file in XMLLayout using the groovy log4j dsl. However, it seems that the "layout:"-part is being ignored. This is my setup:

appenders {
    file name: 'fileAppender', layout: xml, file: '/tmp/logs/applog.xml', threshold: org.apache.log4j.Level.INFO
    console name: "stdout", threshold: org.apache.log4j.Level.INFO
}

root {
    debug 'stdout', 'fileAppender'
}

So to stdout I corectly get my info-level pattern layout, but in the file I also get pattern-layout...

What's the trick here?

Solution

  • This is a bug. I've fixed it for 2.0.1: http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-8635

    The workaround as you found is to use the constructor explicitly instead of the DSL shortcut.