Package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.jdbc

Interface ConnectionSource

All Superinterfaces:

LifeCycle

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractConnectionSource, AbstractDriverManagerConnectionSource, DataSourceConnectionSource, DriverManagerConnectionSource, FactoryMethodConnectionSource

public interface ConnectionSource
extends LifeCycle

Configuration element for JdbcAppender. If you want to use the JdbcAppender but none of the provided connection sources meet your needs, you can simply create your own connection source.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LifeCycle

LifeCycle.State

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Connection	getConnection()	This should return a new connection every time it is called.
String	toString()	All implementations must override Object.toString() to provide information about the connection configuration (obscuring passwords with one-way hashes).

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LifeCycle

getState, initialize, isStarted, isStopped, start, stop

Method Details

getConnection

Connection getConnection()
                  throws SQLException

This should return a new connection every time it is called.

Returns:

the SQL connection object.

Throws:

SQLException - if a database error occurs.

toString

String toString()

All implementations must override Object.toString() to provide information about the connection configuration (obscuring passwords with one-way hashes).

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

the string representation of this connection source.