[jira] [Created] (LOG4J2-2500) Property substitution not working if tag is not placed at the beginning of configuration

["Javier Armendáriz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Javier Armendáriz created LOG4J2-2500:
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             Summary: Property substitution not working if <Properties> tag is not placed at the beginning of configuration
                 Key: LOG4J2-2500
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2500
             Project: Log4j 2
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core
    Affects Versions: 2.11.1
         Environment: Any project with log4j using as configuration a file like the one attached as example.

With this configuration, logs will be printed as ${defaultLayout} instead of the actual message.
            Reporter: Javier Armendáriz
         Attachments: log4j2.xml

Tweaking my log configuration I found out that if the <Properties> is not placed at the beginning of the config just after the <Configuration> tag, the property substitution is not performed at all.

Looking at the documentation I haven't seen anything related to the ordering of the elements in the config files. If there's a good reason that the properties should be placed first place in configuration, it'd be a good idea to note it somewhere in the documentation.



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