Appian version 7.11 + JBoss + MySQL. For a custom plugin file, I am

mohammads

Certified Senior Developer

over 9 years ago

Appian version 7.11 + JBoss + MySQL.

For a custom plugin file, I am trying to write logs to a custom log file.

In appian_log4j.properties (available under <Appian_Home>\\ear\\suite.ear\\resources) file, I have added following entries:

####### Custom Plugin Loggers

log4j.logger.com.pblue=DEBUG, CUSTOM_LOG

###### CUSTOM_LOG file appender
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG.File=${AE_LOGS}/customLog.log
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG.MaxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG.MaxBackupIndex=1000
log4j.appender.CUSTOM_LOG.encoding=UTF-8

I don't see my logs messages in the customLog.log file, though I see below warning message on JBoss console ::
==============
12:37:31,263 INFO [stdout] (http-/0.0.0.0:8080-1) -----------
12:37:31,266 ERROR [st...

appian_log4j.properties

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0 mohammads
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over 9 years ago

...derr] (http-/0.0.0.0:8080-1) log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.pblue.
bengine.TableWithData)
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Could someone point to what am I missing?
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0 mohammads
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over 9 years ago

I don't see my logs messages in the customLog.log file, though I see below warning message on JBoss console ::
==============
12:37:31,263 INFO [stdout] (http-/0.0.0.0:8080-1) -----------
12:37:31,266 ERROR [stderr] (http-/0.0.0.0:8080-1) log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.pblue.
bengine.TableWithData)
==============

Could someone point to what am I missing? Attached appian_log4j.properties file
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0 mohammads
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over 9 years ago

I already went thru below link and did exactly , but not luck ::
forum.appian.com/.../Customizing_Application_Logging.html
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0 Ricardo Galvan
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over 9 years ago

The additional logging will not appear on a new file, it will be included in your application-server.log as mentioned here:

forum.appian.com/.../Appian_Plug-ins.html

In the plugin, you need to include the log4j library from suite.ear/lib in the build path of the project and add the classes on appian_log4j.properties
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0 mohammads
Certified Senior Developer
over 9 years ago

Thanks Ricordo, I have already added log4j liberary in build path.

This was working on Appian7.8 version and custom logger was going in custom log file.

Refer another post by "Deepti Parikh" on below link :

forum.appian.com/.../custom_log

Can you advise ?
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0 rolandc over 9 years ago

We are using 7.11 and I was able to use what you provide to write the CustomLog.log in one of our lower environments using one of the plugins we wrote. Has the plugin recently changed?
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0 mohammads
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over 9 years ago

Nothing major we changed. Just added few log message then I noticed that custom logs are not going in custom.log file in 7.11.
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0 rolandc over 9 years ago

Other than following the steps mentioned in the other custom log posting you pointed, I cannot really think of much that would prevent it.
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