PatternFormatter: add support for "truncate from the beginning" --------------------------------------------------------------- Key: LOGMGR-48 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/LOGMGR-48 Project: JBoss Log Manager Issue Type: Enhancement Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 1.3.1.Final Reporter: Gernot P Assignee: James Perkins Fix For: 1.5.0.Beta2, 2.0.0.Beta1 org.jboss.logmanager.formatters.PatternFormatter does not support "truncate from the beginning" as log4j patterns do (see http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/PatternLayou...) e.g. in log4j the format "%30.30c" outputs a fixed length category (30 characters) and truncates the category from the beginning if it's longer than 30 characters (especially for the category this is a reasonable choice, because the beginning of the category - which is mostly a package name - is always the same and therefore not menaingful) logmanager truncates at the end - so please add support for "truncate from the beginning"