+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.log4j.pattern;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent;
+
+
+/**
+ * Formats a string literal.
+ *
+ * @author Curt Arnold
+ *
+ */
+public final class LiteralPatternConverter extends LoggingEventPatternConverter {
+ /**
+ * String literal.
+ */
+ private final String literal;
+
+ /**
+ * Create a new instance.
+ * @param literal string literal.
+ */
+ public LiteralPatternConverter(final String literal) {
+ super("Literal", "literal");
+ this.literal = literal;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritDoc}
+ */
+ public void format(final LoggingEvent event, final StringBuffer toAppendTo) {
+ toAppendTo.append(literal);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritDoc}
+ */
+ public void format(final Object obj, final StringBuffer toAppendTo) {
+ toAppendTo.append(literal);
+ }
+}