Re: log4j socket appender

Hi all,

I'm not a Java developer (work primarily in Python and JavaScript), but I need some help. I've written a logging server that handles log records sent via UDP, and I'd like to do the same thing with Java. I've got a Java test harness built that looks like this:

import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;

public class HelloWorld {

    /* get an actual logger */
    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger("HelloWorld");

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        logger.info("Info level message");
    }
}

and has a log4j.xml configuration file that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN">
   <Appenders>
     <Console name="STDOUT" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
       <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
     </Console>
     <Socket name="SOCKET" host="localhost" port="9023" protocol="UDP">
      <SerializedLayout />
     </Socket>
   </Appenders>
   <Loggers>
     <Root level="info">
       <AppenderRef ref="STDOUT"/>
       <AppenderRef ref="SOCKET"/>
     </Root>
   </Loggers>
</Configuration>

This works and sends log records from the Java test program to my Python logging server. However, I can't figure out what the format of the data received by the Python logging server is? This is the data I get back in my handler:

'\xac\xed\x00\x05sr\x00>org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jLogEvent$LogEventProxy\x9c\xed\x0f]p\xda*\x16\x02\x00\rZ\x00\x0cisEndOfBatchZ\x00\x12isLocationRequiredJ\x00\ntimeMillisL\x00\ncontextMapt\x00\x0fLjava/util/Map;L\x00\x0ccontextStackt\x005Lorg/apache/logging/log4j/ThreadContext$ContextStack;L\x00\x05levelt\x00 Lorg/apache/logging/log4j/Level;L\x00\nloggerFQCNt\x00\x12Ljava/lang/String;L\x00\nloggerNameq\x00~\x00\x04L\x00\x06markert\x00!Lorg/apache/logging/log4j/Marker;L\x00\x07messaget\x00*Lorg/apache/logging/log4j/message/Message;L\x00\x06sourcet\x00\x1dLjava/lang/StackTraceElement;L\x00\nthreadNameq\x00~\x00\x04L\x00\x0bthrownProxyt\x003Lorg/apache/logging/log4j/core/impl/ThrowableProxy;xp\x00\x01\x00\x00\x01H\x8f\x9d\xfb>sr\x00\x1ejava.util.Collections$EmptyMapY6\x14\x85Z\xdc\xe7\xd0\x02\x00\x00xpsr\x00>org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext$EmptyThreadContextStack\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x02\x00\x00xpsr\x00\x1eorg.apache.logging.log4j.Level\x00\x00\x00\x00

I can see the data I want in there, but don't know how to parse this. Any hints, pointers or suggestions would be most welcome!