Retrieve List of Log4J Appenders at Run Time

Question

Is it possible to retrieve a list of all appenders configured in log4j at run time?

I\'ll flesh out the scenario a little more. Given the following config how would

Answer 1

Working Solution for Log4j 1:

Note: getAllAppenders will get only active log. Not the full list of files defined in your log4j.xml configuration file.

Here's how I could achieve this for setting rwxrwxrwx rights on all log files

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static  E safeCastNoException(Object o, Class target)
{
  if(target.isInstance(o)) return (E)o;
  return null;
}
    {

        URL file;
        try
        {
            LogManager.resetConfiguration();
            file = new URL("file:" + Log4jXMLConfigFileName);
            // We override DOMConfigurator to catch Appender settings
            // in parseAppender and rework file rights access
            new DOMConfigurator()
            {
                @Override
                protected Appender parseAppender(Element appenderElement)
                {
                    Appender a = super.parseAppender(appenderElement);

                    FileAppender fileAppender = safeCastNoException(a, FileAppender.class);
                    if( fileAppender != null )
                    {
                        String filePath=fileAppender.getFile();

                        Path pathTofile = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(filePath);
                        try
                        {
                            // Create the empty file with default permissions, etc.
                            Files.createFile(pathTofile);
                        }
                        catch(FileAlreadyExistsException x)
                        {
                            System.err.format("file named %s already exists, no need to recreate%n", pathTofile);
                        }
                        catch(Exception x)
                        {
                            // Some other sort of failure, such as permissions.
                            System.err.format("createFile error: %s%n", x);
                        }

                        try
                        {
                            //using PosixFilePermission to set file permissions 777
                            Set perms = new HashSet();
                            //add owners permission
                            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OWNER_READ);
                            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OWNER_WRITE);
                            //perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OWNER_EXECUTE);
                            //add group permissions
                            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.GROUP_READ);
                            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.GROUP_WRITE);
                            //perms.add(PosixFilePermission.GROUP_EXECUTE);
                            //add others permissions
                            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OTHERS_READ);
                            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OTHERS_WRITE);
                            //perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OTHERS_EXECUTE);
                            System.out.println("Trying to set 666 posix rights to log file: " + pathTofile.toAbsolutePath().toString());
                            Files.setPosixFilePermissions(Paths.get(pathTofile.toAbsolutePath().toString()), perms);
                        }
                        catch(Exception x)
                        {
                            // Some other sort of failure, such as permissions.
                            System.err.format("chmod error: %s%n", x);
                        }
                    }
                    return a;
                }
            }.
            doConfigure(file, LogManager.getLoggerRepository());
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }