How to exclude messages

[pradeepkusingh]

I have mixed bags of Json and string messages and would like to avoid sending simple string messages. How can I do that ?

[danielwegener]

just a thought :)

• json-objects are strings and therefore hard/expensive to distinguish from "messages": (is "{}" a json string or maybe just a a crude log message? should id be filtered?)
• logback is a logging framework (primarily) working with strings => use something different to write json objects to a kafka topic (e.g. a kafka client) and to not sneak them through a logging framework.

Of course you could also use a dedicated logger that is tied to an kafka-appender for your json objects. But well. It's not really meant to be used like that :)