[jira] [Created] (LOG4J2-2256) GelfLayout does not allow to truncate short message to arbitrary length

["Hugo Veillette (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Hugo Veillette created LOG4J2-2256:
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             Summary: GelfLayout does not allow to truncate short message to arbitrary length
                 Key: LOG4J2-2256
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2256
             Project: Log4j 2
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Layouts
    Affects Versions: 2.10.0
            Reporter: Hugo Veillette


Hi, 

using the GelfLayout provided in Log4j2 core, we are unable to truncate the value of the "short_message" field to an arbitrary size for message type other than StringBuilderFormattable. 

The outcome leads to duplicate large amount of data through the appenders which ends up hurting performance, storage and network.

Proposed enhancement would be to add an attribute in the short message to set arbitrary length for the short message. 

Here is the  detail of 2.10.0 implementation. 

{code:java|title="org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.GelfLayout"}
builder.append("\"short_message\":\"");
        final Message message = event.getMessage();
        if (message instanceof CharSequence) {
            JsonUtils.quoteAsString(((CharSequence)message), builder);
        } else if (gcFree && message instanceof StringBuilderFormattable) {
            final StringBuilder messageBuffer = getMessageStringBuilder();
            try {
                ((StringBuilderFormattable) message).formatTo(messageBuffer);
                JsonUtils.quoteAsString(messageBuffer, builder);
            } finally {
                trimToMaxSize(messageBuffer);
            }
        } else {
            JsonUtils.quoteAsString(toNullSafeString(message.getFormattedMessage()), builder);
        }
{code}

{code:java|title="org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.AbstractStringLayout"}
    protected static final int MAX_STRING_BUILDER_SIZE = Math.max(DEFAULT_STRING_BUILDER_SIZE,
            size("log4j.layoutStringBuilder.maxSize", 2 * 1024));
    protected static void trimToMaxSize(final StringBuilder stringBuilder) {
        StringBuilders.trimToMaxSize(stringBuilder, MAX_STRING_BUILDER_SIZE);
    }
{code}



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