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Add Support For Unix Domain Sockets

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reading the getLogger() entry point and tracing how the current (host, port) inet address is handled. Look for existing tests around logger targets; done means a SocketAddress can represent a Unix domain socket and messages can be sent to it, with coverage for the new path.

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Description

It would be nice if this logger would support Unix Domain Sockets as the target instead of only (host, port) inet addresses. UnixDomainSocketAddress was added in Java 16. However, this library need not depend on that if SocketAddress can be supplied to getLogger() which has been around since 1.4.

This feature would be particularly useful for container environments such as Docker because some not very nice tricks are required for a container to connect to a host socket. Note that Unix domain sockets are supported by Fluentd and Fluent-Bit.

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Java
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Forks
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