Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-logging-log4j-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-logging-log4j-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10EEB18755 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 03:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 40682 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2015 03:00:19 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-logging-log4j-dev-archive@logging.apache.org Received: (qmail 40639 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jun 2015 03:00:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact log4j-dev-help@logging.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Log4J Developers List" Reply-To: "Log4J Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list log4j-dev@logging.apache.org Received: (qmail 40627 invoked by uid 99); 2 Jun 2015 03:00:19 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 03:00:19 +0000 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 03:00:19 +0000 (UTC) From: "Gary Gregory (JIRA)" To: log4j-dev@logging.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (LOG4J2-926) Truncate from the end of text format modifier MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-926?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Gary Gregory updated LOG4J2-926: -------------------------------- Comment: was deleted (was: [~remkop@yahoo.com]: There is no such syntax, hence this feature request.) > Truncate from the end of text format modifier > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: LOG4J2-926 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-926 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Pattern Converters > Affects Versions: 2.1 > Reporter: David Ohana > Fix For: 2.3 > > Attachments: 0001-LOG4J2-926-Implemented-Truncate-from-end-using-the-m.patch > > > In log4j 2, I would like to trim the end of messages written to the console appender when size is above a specified threshold. > I looked at the http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.0/manual/layouts.html#PatternLayout docs but can see no option to truncate the end of the "msg" field. > "%.1000msg" will leave only the last 1000 chars of the message. > This is not good for me because in Java the most inner frames in stack trace are printed at the beginning of the message. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscribe@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-help@logging.apache.org