Memcached implementaion broken due to log4j update

[holajsh]

Play Version (1.5.x / etc)

1.7.0

Operating System (Ubuntu 15.10 / MacOS 10.10 / Windows 10)

Linux 5.14.0-1038-oem #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 19 05:03:08 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

JDK (Oracle 1.8.0_72, OpenJDK 1.8.x, Azul Zing)

openjdk version "11.0.15" 2022-04-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.15+10-post-Debian-1deb10u1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.15+10-post-Debian-1deb10u1, mixed mode, sharing)

Actual Behavior

When enabling memcached support, the library initialization fails with the following exception:

13:02:21.345 [main] ERROR play - Error while connecting to memcached
java.lang.RuntimeException: Problem getting logger
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.internalGetLogger(LoggerFactory.java:100) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:87) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:73) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.SpyThread.getLogger(SpyThread.java:60) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.MemcachedConnection.<init>(MemcachedConnection.java:294) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.DefaultConnectionFactory.createConnection(DefaultConnectionFactory.java:209) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient.<init>(MemcachedClient.java:209) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient.<init>(MemcachedClient.java:179) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at play.cache.MemcachedImpl.initClient(MemcachedImpl.java:127) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
        at play.cache.MemcachedImpl.<init>(MemcachedImpl.java:89) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
        at play.cache.MemcachedImpl.getInstance(MemcachedImpl.java:46) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
        at play.cache.Cache.init(Cache.java:235) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
        at play.Play.start(Play.java:549) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
        at play.Play.init(Play.java:326) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
        at play.server.Server.main(Server.java:164) ~[play-1.7.1.jar:?]
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.getNewInstance(LoggerFactory.java:118) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.internalGetLogger(LoggerFactory.java:98) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        ... 14 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:45) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.getNewInstance(LoggerFactory.java:118) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.internalGetLogger(LoggerFactory.java:98) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        ... 14 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.log4j.Logger
        at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522) ~[?:?]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:45) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?]
        at jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[?:?]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.getNewInstance(LoggerFactory.java:118) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        at net.spy.memcached.compat.log.LoggerFactory.internalGetLogger(LoggerFactory.java:98) ~[spymemcached-2.12.3.jar:2.12.3]
        ... 14 more
13:02:21.351 [main] WARN  play - Fallback to local cache

It seems due to the update to log4j 2.x where org/apache/log4j/Logger does not exists anymore.

[holajsh]

#1411 will fix this issue