log4j2 appender for javabrake

Introduction

log4javabrake2 is a logging Middleware in Java for Airbrake.

Installation

Gradle:

compile 'io.airbrake:log4javabrake2:0.1.9'

Maven:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.airbrake</groupId>
  <artifactId>log4javabrake2</artifactId>
  <version>0.1.9</version>
</dependency>

Ivy:

<dependency org='io.airbrake' name='log4javabrake2' rev='0.1.9'>
  <artifact name='log4javabrake2' ext='pom'></artifact>
</dependency>

Configuration

If you want to send the error logs to Airbrake, you need to have following lines in log4j.xml. Add this file in resources folder. This file is main file for log4j configuration. and contains information about log levels, log appenders.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN" packages="io.airbrake.log4javabrake2">
  <Appenders>
    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
    </Console>
    <Airbrake name="Airbrake" projectId="12345" projectKey="FIXME" env="production"></Airbrake>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root>
      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
      <AppenderRef ref="Airbrake"/>
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Error Logging

import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

Logger logger = (org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger)LoggerFactory.getLogger("Name");

try {
  do();
} catch (IOException e) {
  logger.error(e.getMessage());   
}

Notifier release instrucitons

A note on Java version

Make sure you build and release this notifier with open-jdk, one way to manage your local java version is using asdf. You can install this tool via homebrew:

brew install asdf

Then install open-jdk-'mention version here' and set it as JAVA home before running any of the ./gradlew commands:

asdf plugin add java
asdf install java openjdk-'mention version here'
export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/.asdf/installs/java/openjdk-'mention version here'

Building and Releasing

./gradlew build

Upload to Maven Central:

./gradlew publish

To release the deployment to maven central repository:

• http://central.sonatype.org/pages/releasing-the-deployment.html

Usefull links:

• https://search.maven.org/artifact/io.airbrake/log4javabrake2