I was trying to use nested markers to organize my logs in a better (maybe) way.
But the MarkerFilter (ch.qos.logback.classic.turbo.MarkerFilter) did not treat nested (or composite) markers as I expect.

Here a test that shows this issue, this test can be appended to ch.qos.logback.classic.turbo.MarkerFilterTest:

@Test
public void testComposite()

{ String compositeMarkerName = "compositeMarker"; Marker compositeMarker=MarkerFactory.getMarker(compositeMarkerName); compositeMarker.add(totoMarker); MarkerFilter mkt = new MarkerFilter(); mkt.setMarker(MARKER_NAME); mkt.setOnMatch("ACCEPT"); mkt.setOnMismatch("DENY"); mkt.start(); assertTrue(mkt.isStarted()); assertEquals(FilterReply.DENY, mkt.decide(null, null, null, null, null, null)); assertEquals(FilterReply.ACCEPT, mkt.decide(totoMarker, null, null, null, null, null)); assertEquals(FilterReply.ACCEPT, mkt.decide(compositeMarker, null, null, null, null, null)); }

The solution that I found is pretty simple, here is the patch:

diff --git a/logback-classic/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/classic/turbo/MarkerFilter.java b/logback-classic/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/classic/turbo/MarkerFilter.java
index 8e133cb..434b035 100644
— a/logback-classic/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/classic/turbo/MarkerFilter.java
+++ b/logback-classic/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/classic/turbo/MarkerFilter.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public class MarkerFilter extends MatchingFilter

{ return onMismatch; }

• if(markerToMatch.contains(marker)) {
  + if(marker.contains(markerToMatch)) { return onMatch; }

  else {
  return onMismatch;

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    1.7.5.4