Support for fully custom format by easily disabling all shipped providers

[hendrikpeilke]

We use this wonderful plugin for quarkus, since the original quarkus plugin lacks customization. Background: We have a company defined JSON format for logging. With this quarkiverse plugin I can customize logging to achieve this format, but I hope some things get better:

What we did

• we disabled all providers by configuration and defined a JsonProvider for the logging plugin holding all of our needed implementation
• that way we can test our format straight forward
• at start we used a combination of renaming providers by configuration and implementing a JsonProvider, making it hard to understand what was going on and to test

The problem

• we now have as many disable provider configurations in our quarkus app, as you have providers inside your plugin
  • when a new provider is added, we need to update that list
    • that point is hard for us to find out about

Possible solutions

• one solution may be to provide an empty format in this if-cascade:

  quarkus-logging-json/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkiverse/loggingjson/LoggingJsonRecorder.java

  Line 50 in c5564cf

  if (config.logFormat() == Config.LogFormat.ECS) {

  adding no providers at all
• another solution may be to have a global disablement of all predefined providers implementing it in the same space or at provider level itself

Maybe you have got other hints or solutions?