Thanks for your understanding. As I said, I am not against routing them all to JsonTemplateLayout but I can understand that that might be difficult.
We do need to make sure that the Layout documentation on the web site makes it clear that JsonTemplateLayout is the preferred solution. Ralph > On Feb 23, 2021, at 2:03 PM, Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am dropping the case due to objections from other committers. > I have closed the GitHub PR and JIRA ticket for the deprecation of > log4j-layout-jackson* modules. > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 4:10 PM Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> As the title suggests, in accordance with the aim of reducing the >> maintenance burden, I want to propose removal of the GelfLayout from >> master, not release-2.x! Currently, JsonTemplateLayout already ships a >> template producing exactly the same output as GelfLayout; see >> GelfLayout.json template and GelfLayoutTest class. The only missing piece >> of the puzzle is compression support, which I am gonna address in >> LOG4J2-3023 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-3023>. Do I >> have a go for this operation? What do you think? >> >> On the other hand, I wish we would be able to implement compression as >> some sort of filter applicable to layouts. Is such a thing possible? >>
