Spring Boot-Log4J2: Is there any way to use the values in application.yml for JDBC appender?

Question

I'm trying to create a JDBC appender to log into a DB table. I've succeeded so far by creating a ConnectionFactory and specifying it in log4j2-spring.xml . However, the DB credentials are all hardcoded and I would like to use the credentials I have in my application.yml but since logging seems to be loaded before Spring ApplicationContext, using the @Value annotation doesn't work.

I've also tried building the appender programmatically with this guide as a reference but it's requiring me to define the extended LifeCycle methods in ConnectionSource and I'm not sure what to do with that.

I've tried defining the ConnectionSource class as this but it returns a NullPointerException on this line

Appender jdbcAppender = JdbcAppender.newBuilder()
                .setBufferSize(0)
                .setColumnConfigs(columnConfigs)
                .setColumnMappings()
                .setConnectionSource(connectionSource)
                .setTableName("LOG")
                .setName("databaseAppender")
                .setIgnoreExceptions(true)
                .setFilter(null)
                .build();

This is the ConnectionSource I made:

    public class LoggerDatabaseSource implements ConnectionSource
    {
        private DataSource dataSource;


        public LoggerDatabaseSource(String url, String userName, String password, String validationQuery)
        {
            Properties properties = new Properties();
            properties.setProperty("user", userName);
            properties.setProperty("password", password);

            GenericObjectPool<PoolableConnection> pool = new GenericObjectPool<>();
            DriverManagerConnectionFactory cf = new DriverManagerConnectionFactory(url, properties);
            new PoolableConnectionFactory(cf, pool, null, validationQuery, 3, false, false, Connection.TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED);
            this.dataSource = new PoolingDataSource(pool);
        }

        @Override
        public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException
        {
            return dataSource.getConnection();
        }

        @Override
        public State getState() {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public void initialize() {

        }

        @Override
        public void start() {

        }

        @Override
        public void stop() {

        }

        @Override
        public boolean isStarted() {
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isStopped() {
            return false;
        }
    }

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Is there a reason you aren't using one of Log4j's database appenders? If you want access to properties defined in Spring's configuration, if you are using Spring Boot you can use the Log4j Spring Cloud Config Client which provides the Spring Lookup . This will let you reference properties from your application.yml file and use them in your log4j configuration.