[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-124) Gracefully stopping LogContext using the api interfaces

["Ralph Goers (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-124:
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The LoggerContext interface currently only exposes 3 methods, getLogger, hasLogger and getExternalContext. The implementation has many more methods than this including start, stop, isStarted, getConfiguration, and reconfigure.

If the stop method were to be part of the API I am having trouble determining which of these should not.  Adding getConfiguration would require making the Configuration interface part of the API, which i don't believe is appropirate. If getConfiguration isn't there then why would reconfigure be?  If stop is there then why wouldn't start also be, although I can't imagine any circumstances where it would be a good idea for an application to call start.
                
> Gracefully stopping LogContext using the api interfaces
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-124
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-124
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Question
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta3
>            Reporter: Szabolcs Beki
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I'm trying to gracefully close my SocketAppender before exiting the my application to avoid IOExceptions on the socket server side.  
> Currently I can make it only by using interface the org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Lifecycle interface in the Log4j2 core  : 
> ((Lifecycle) LogManager.getContext()).stop();
> I would prefer to have a cleaner solution that uses solely the Log4j-api not Log4j-core. 
> Did I overlook something or stop() on the API side really missing ? 

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