Sorry, I don’t follow.
Why not get the appender’s layout and get the charset by calling getCharset()?
> On Mar 7, 2018, at 7:21, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is my current use case: I'd like to be able to query getContentType()
> on an FILE appender (File, RollingFile, RAF, ...) and get the proper
> charset if the layout for that appender defines it.
>
> Gary
>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not all MIME types actually use the encoding parameter. For example,
>> "application/json;charset=UTF-8" is technically an invalid MIME type (it's
>> supposed to be "application/json", and it's assumed to be UTF-8 because
>> that's the only official charset for JSON). Providing the charset
>> separately makes semantic sense to me.
>>
>>> On 6 March 2018 at 16:04, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Right. AbstractStringLayout says:
>>>
>>> @Override
>>> public Charset getCharset() {
>>> return charset;
>>> }
>>>
>>> /**
>>> * @return The default content type for Strings.
>>> */
>>> @Override
>>> public String getContentType() {
>>> return "text/plain";
>>> }
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> (Away from pc) by “use”, do you mean that the string returned by
>>>> getContentType() doesn’t include a charset?
>>>>
>>>> From memory, I remember the only place this method is used is in the
>>>> HtmlAppender. Are there other places?
>>>>
>>>> (Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info
>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 7, 2018, at 1:37, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks
>>>>> like org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.AbstractStringLayout.
>>>> getContentType()
>>>>> does NOT use its charset.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone foresee a problem with fixing this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
>>
