Need something better than toString for converting args

[audit4j]

Need something better than toString for converting args

[janithb]

Hi @massfords ,

We already Identified this issue and currently in progress of developing the solution. We thought of using pluggable serializer to extract object to relevant audit record based on annotations in the object fields (ex: MyDTO). I have developed below couple of serializes similar to old toString implementation. Please refer below implementations.

https://github.com/audit4j/audit4j-core/blob/master/src/main/java/org/audit4j/core/ObjectToFieldsSerializer.java

https://github.com/audit4j/audit4j-core/blob/master/src/main/java/org/audit4j/core/ObjectToStringSerializer.java

Using this method, users are able to plug their own serializer implementation based on the requirement (Ex: JSONable, XML). then you don't need to implement a custom a annotation transformer

What do you think.

[massfords]

A pluggable serializer seems like the right approach. I took a quick look at the source. I don't see a way to configure the serializer yet but I'm guessing this is still a work in progress.

[janithb]

This issue is resolved.

Fixes are available in Audit4j 2.4.1-RC1 release

@massfords Please test and verify.

[janithb]

This issue is fixed in 2.4.1