[jira] [Resolved] (LOG4J2-1718) Introduce marker interface AsynchronouslyFormattable

["Remko Popma (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1718?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Remko Popma resolved LOG4J2-1718.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Pushed to master in commit b47e496.
Also improved javadoc on {{Message::getFormattedMessage}}.

> Introduce marker interface AsynchronouslyFormattable
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1718
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1718
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: API
>    Affects Versions: 2.7
>            Reporter: Remko Popma
>            Assignee: Remko Popma
>             Fix For: 2.8
>
>
> Logging mutable objects asynchronously always has the risk that the object is modified between the time the logger is called and the time the log message is formatted and written to disk.
> Log4j built-in Message implementation classes prevent this race condition in one of two ways:
> * Implement the {{ReusableMessage}} interface. Asynchronous logging components in log4j cooperate with ReusableMessages by copying their _content_ (formatted message, parameters) into the LogEvent rather than passing the Message instance itself. This ensures the formatted message will not change when the mutable object is modified.
> * Cache the formatted message when the {{getFormattedMessage}} method is called. Asynchronous logging components in log4j will call this method before passing the Message object to another thread. (See LOG4J2-763.) For example, FormattedMessage, LocalizedMessage, MessageFormatMessage, ObjectArrayMessage, ObjectMessage, ParameterizedMessage, SimpleMessage, StringFormattedMessage and ThreadDumpMessage take this approach. Once initialized, {{getFormattedMessage}} returns the cached String, so changes to the mutable object will not impact the formatted message.
> For performance reasons, users can choose to format _all_ messages in the background by setting system property {{log4j.format.msg.async}} to true. (See LOG4J2-898.)
> Some messages do not capture mutable objects and are not at risk of the above race condition. 
> This ticket proposes to introduce interface {{AsynchronouslyFormattable}} as a marker interface to signal to asynchronous logging components that messages of this type can safely be passed to a background thread without calling {{getFormattedMessage}} first.
> This benefits performance and avoids creating unnecessary (unused) objects.
> Candidates for implementing this interface are message implementations which do not cache anything in {{getFormattedMessage}}:
> * flow messages (SimpleEntryMessage and SimpleExitMessage)
> * MapMessage
> * StructuredDataMessage



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