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/util/Closer.java

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

import org.apache.logging.log4j.status.StatusLogger;

/**
 * Closes resources.
 */
public final class Closer {

    private Closer() {
        // empty
    }

    /**
     * Closes an AutoCloseable or ignores if {@code null}.
     *
     * @param closeable the resource to close; may be null
     * @return Whether the resource was closed.
     * @throws Exception if the resource cannot be closed
     * @since 2.8
     * @since 2.11.2 returns a boolean instead of being a void return type.
     */
    public static boolean close(final AutoCloseable closeable) throws Exception {
        if (closeable != null) {
            StatusLogger.getLogger().debug("Closing {} {}", closeable.getClass().getSimpleName(), closeable);
            closeable.close();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Closes an AutoCloseable and returns {@code true} if it closed without exception.
     *
     * @param closeable the resource to close; may be null
     * @return true if resource was closed successfully, or false if an exception was thrown
     */
    public static boolean closeSilently(final AutoCloseable closeable) {
        try {
            return close(closeable);
        } catch (final Exception ignored) {
            return false;
        }
    }

}

⏎ org/apache/logging/log4j/core/util/Closer.java

 

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