Helper Methods

The abstract appender also has various cool methods that you can use when building appenders:

Properties Methods

Method	Description
`struct getProperties()`	Get the entire properties struct.
`void setProperties(struct properties)`	Override all properties with a new properties struct.
`any getProperty(string property)`	Get a property.
`void setProperty(string property, any value)`	Set a property.
`boolean propertyExists(string property)`	Checks if a property exists.

Method	Description
`boolean isInitialized()`	Returns true if the appender has been initialized.
`string getName()`	Get the name of the appender
`string getHash()`	Get the appender's unique hash id
`string severityToString(numeric severity)`	Transforms a severity integer to it's human readable form

Method	Description
`any getCustomLayout()`	Get the custom layout object if defined.
`boolean hasCustomLayout()`	Checks if the custom layout object is defined in this appender.