Disable freemarker logs from logs4j

Question

Similar question but i'm using log4j2.

I need a way to disable All logs from freemarker, in their documentation they say we can do it by calling Logger.selectLoggerLibrary(Logger.LIBRARY_NONE) but they say

selectLoggerLibrary must be called early, before FreeMarker could log anything, or else it will not have (consistent) effect.

Where do I call this in a struts2 application? (I tried calling it in prepare() method in my action class but its not working.) or is there any other way to disable the logs?

Answer 1

Question is, why do you need to disable it like that?

You shouldn't need that, so I guess that's where the real problem lies. Is there some kind of malfunction? Because if there isn't, why not just set the freemarker logger category to be ignored in your logger configuration? That's the normal way of doing this, FreeMarker or not.

Anyway, in 2.3.22 (release expected in early 2015) you can use the -Dorg.freemarker.loggerLibrary=none where you start the JVM (that is, you set the org.freemarker.loggerLibrary system property). Otherwise, if you could call that method in a ServletContextListener that's certainly early enough.

Update:

Reacting to the comments... in most applications you will have 3rd party libraries that use various logging "frameworks", like SLF4J, commons-logging, JUL, Log4j, Log4j2. Thus you have to ensure that all these get redirected into the same logger library, which is certainly Log4j2 in your case. I suspect that wasn't properly done in your case, so now multiple logger libraries log to the console, each with its own configuration settings.

FreeMarker 2.3.x uses Log4j 1.x if it detects that org.apache.log4j.Logger is present. Other logger libraries that it also can detect and use (Log4j2 is not amongst them) have lower priority. (FreeMarker 2.4.x will always use SLF4J if it's present.) Thus, if you add org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-1.2-api to your dependencies, then FM will use org.apache.log4j.Logger, and so log4j-1.2.-api will redirect the FM log messages to Log4j2. That worked for me, with this Log4j2 configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="WARN">
  <Appenders>
    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n" />
    </Console>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="debug">
      <AppenderRef ref="Console" />
    </Root>
    <Logger name="freemarker" level="off">
      <AppenderRef ref="Console" />
    </Logger>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>