CucumberLog4jAppender that appends to the Cucumber log

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some users use Log4j and want their application logs to end up in the reports.

Describe the solution you’d like

A CucumberLog4jAppender appender class that outputs to Scenario#log. Since a new scenario instance is created for each scenario, we would probably need a static method on the appender that can be called from a hook:

@Before
public void updateAppender(Scenario scenario) {
    CucumberLog4jAppender.setScenario(scenario)
}

Additional context

This should probably be implemented in a separate sub project (/log4j).

[mpkorstanje]

I think it would be easier to manage releases if it were just another module in this repo.

Maybe after the prototype/incubator stage is done.

Until you’ve nailed down all the problems the release frequency and general churn is going to be much higher. Not something you can do while also commiting to semver.

I’ve added back the good first issue label because it’s something I don’t think the core team is interested in implementing. I want to sign-post that this is something we would rely on the wider community to contribute.

Given the amount of uncertainty in the exact shape of the solution, the lack of clear acceptance criteria, knowledge of, both Cucumber and logging frameworks required and general lack of clear direction this is any thing but a good first issue.

It would benefit maintainers because they don’t have to explain over and over again how to implement this. (It’s a question we’ve received three times over the past month in the Intercom support for reports.cucumber.io).

So it would benefit SmartBear, not the maintainers. Though there is some overlap. Yet at the moment it sounds like SmartBear is not interested in sponsoring this.

Perhaps you can start with a lower cost investment and write a blog post instead.

[aslakhellesoy]

I’ve added back the good first issue label because it’s something I don’t think the core team is interested in implementing. I want to sign-post that this is something we would rely on the wider community to contribute.