How to implement Appender inheriting class in Log4cplus

Question

I want to use SMTP appender to send log messages to a given mail addres, using Log4cplus.

Since Log4cplus does not have this appender, I know it is nesessary to extend/inherit the Appender class and implement my own SMTP appender.

Since I haven't seen any example for inheriting and implementing an appender, I would like to ask: Can anyone share a code example or a reference of inheriting and implementing an appender class?

I will be greatfull for any help.

Answer 1

There are plenty of examples of that in the log4cplus source code. You basically need to inherit from Appender. Potentially, you might want to register your appender in appenders factory. See factory.h.