Apache Log4j Core Implementation provides the functional components of the logging system. Users are free to create their own plugins and include them in the logging configuration. Apache Log4j Core is a required module to use Apache Log4j.

Bytecode (Java 8) for Apache Log4j Core Implementation is provided in a separate JAR file like log4j-core-2.14.1.jar.

Source Code files for Apache Log4j API are provided in both binary packge like apache-log4j-2.14.1-bin.zip and source package like apache-log4j-2.14.1-src.zip. You can download them at Apache Log4j Website.

You can also browse Source Code files for Apache Log4j Core Implementation 2.14.1 below.

⏎ org/apache/logging/log4j/core/async/InternalAsyncUtil.java

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package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Constants;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.message.AsynchronouslyFormattable;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.message.Message;

/**
 * Helper class providing some async logging-related functionality.
 * <p>
 *     Consider this class private.
 * </p>
 */
public class InternalAsyncUtil {
    /**
     * Returns the specified message, with its content frozen unless system property
     * {@code log4j.format.msg.async} is true or the message class is annotated with
     * {@link AsynchronouslyFormattable}.
     *
     * @param msg the message object to inspect, modify and return
     * @return Returns the specified message, with its content frozen
     */
    public static Message makeMessageImmutable(final Message msg) {
        // if the Message instance is reused, there is no point in freezing its message here
        if (msg != null && !canFormatMessageInBackground(msg)) {
            msg.getFormattedMessage(); // LOG4J2-763: ask message to makeMessageImmutable parameters
        }
        return msg;
    }

    private static boolean canFormatMessageInBackground(final Message message) {
        return Constants.FORMAT_MESSAGES_IN_BACKGROUND // LOG4J2-898: user wants to format all msgs in background
                || message.getClass().isAnnotationPresent(AsynchronouslyFormattable.class); // LOG4J2-1718
    }
}

⏎ org/apache/logging/log4j/core/async/InternalAsyncUtil.java

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Release date: 2021-03-06
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