logback-janino-fragment is missing imports for ch.qos.logback.classic and slf4j

[chrisrueger]

In our Apache Felix Logback based OSGI Environment we get the following error when using an expression in an EvaluatorFilter:

Could not start evaluator with expression [mdc != null && "true".equals(mdc.get("enableLogHttpTraffic"))] org.codehaus.commons.compiler.CompileException: Line 1, Column 7: A class 'ch.qos.logback.classic.Level' could not be found

Our appender:

<appender name="HTTP_LOG_CONSOLE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
		
		<filter class="ch.qos.logback.core.filter.EvaluatorFilter">      
	      <evaluator name="httpEvaluator" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.boolex.JaninoEventEvaluator"> <!-- defaults to type ch.qos.logback.classic.boolex.JaninoEventEvaluator -->
	        <expression>mdc != null &amp;&amp; "true".equals(mdc.get("enableLogHttp"))</expression>
	      </evaluator>
	      <onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
	      <onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
	    </filter>
	    
		<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
			<Pattern>%X{client} | %-4date | %msg%n</Pattern>
		</layout>
	</appender>

Reason

We found out that janino-fragment only does a

Require-Bundle: ch.qos.logback.core

in MANIFEST.MF
So it cannot see the class ch.qos.logback.classic.Level which lives in ch.qos.logback.classic

The easiest thing would be to extend:

Require-Bundle: ch.qos.logback.core,\
 ch.qos.logback.classic

We tested this and it fixes the problem, but then a new but similar error appeared

Could not start evaluator with expression [mdc != null && "true".equals(mdc.get("enableLogHttp"))] org.codehaus.janino.JaninoRuntimeException: Cannot load class 'org.slf4j.Marker' through the parent loader
	at org.codehaus.janino.JaninoRuntimeException: Cannot load class 'org.slf4j.Marker' through the parent loader
	at 	at org.codehaus.janino.SimpleCompiler$1.getDelegate(SimpleCompiler.java:325)
	at 	at org.codehaus.janino.SimpleCompiler$1.accept(SimpleCompiler.java:301)
	at 	at org.codehaus.janino.UnitCompiler.getType(UnitCompiler.java:5660)

This could be fixed by adding

Import-Package: org.slf4j

to MANIFEST.MF

Summary

Maybe it should be fixed together with #22 which asks to replace the Require-Bundle with DynamicImport-Package

I tested this as well and it works and fixes also my problem when MANIFEST.MF is modified like this:

Modify MANIFEST.MF like this:

remove

Require-Bundle: ch.qos.logback.core

and add

DynamicImport-Package: ch.qos.logback.*,\
 org.slf4j

[austek]

What's the outlook on for fix on this issue?