Some plugins bypass the plugin logger and add the plugin prefix
manually to the log message. Since they use other logger names
(e.g. qualified class names) these would now also appear in the
log. Disable the logger prefix for these plugins so the messages
show up correctly.
Essentials uses a custom logger name ("Essentials") instead of the
plugin logger. Log messages are redirected to the plugin logger by
setting the parent of the "Essentials" logger to the plugin logger.
With our changes, the plugin logger is now also called "Essentials",
resulting in an infinite loop. Make sure plugins can't change the
parent of the plugin logger to avoid this.
SLF4J is a commonly used abstraction for various logging frameworks
such as java.util.logging (JUL) or Log4j. Currently, plugins are
required to do all their logging using the provided JUL logger.
This is annoying for plugins that target multiple platforms or when
using libraries that log messages using SLF4J.
Expose SLF4J as optional logging API for plugins, so they can use
it without having to shade it in the plugin and going through
several layers of logging abstraction.
Log4j2 provides an optimized implementation of PrintStream that
redirects its output to a logger. Use it instead of a custom
implementation for minor performance improvements and some fixes.
With the old implementation, each call to System.print()
results in a separate line, even though it should not result in
a line break. Log4j's implementation handles it correctly.
Messages written to System.out are automatically redirected to the
root logger by CraftBukkit. However, before the messages reach the
logger, they are encoded and later decoded again using the standard
system encoding.
On some systems (e.g. FreeBSD), the standard system encoding is
US-ASCII by default, which doesn't support the section sign (§) that
is used for the color codes. Consequently, they will never reach
the formatter that translates them into ANSI escape codes.
There is no reason to write these messages to System.out - it just
adds additional overhead and the encoding problems. We can just log
the messages directly with the root logger.
There is usually no reason to stop reading from the console, so
preventing console input after EOT can be extremely confusing.
To prevent this, we can simply ignore the exception thrown by
JLine and continue reading normally.
It was originally added in Bukkit/CraftBukkit@6aafe7c5a1 as a
workaround for BUKKIT-4956 to fix console output on Windows.
I believe the original issue was related to LOG4J2-965 and fixed
in apache/logging-log4j2@d04659c. Minecraft 1.12 finally updated
the Log4J version so this issue is no longer present.
Console output is still working fine on Windows after removing this.
Rewrite console improvements (console colors, tab completion,
persistent input line, ...) using JLine 3.x and TerminalConsoleAppender.
New features:
- Support console colors for Vanilla commands
- Add console colors for warnings and errors
- Server can now be turned off safely using CTRL + C. JLine catches
the signal and the implementation shuts down the server cleanly.
- Support console colors and persistent input line when running in
IntelliJ IDEA
Other changes:
- Update JLine to 3.3.1 (from 2.12.1)
- Server starts 1-2 seconds faster thanks to optimizations in Log4j
configuration