From d9856f6c88458648f81612fc8b15315abcec9683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ajit Thakor <49403056+athakor@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 23:31:14 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: logback logging exceptions with null message (#251)

---
 .../java/com/google/cloud/logging/logback/LoggingAppender.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/logging/logback/LoggingAppender.java b/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/logging/logback/LoggingAppender.java
index ff884d4ae..65ec051ec 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/logging/logback/LoggingAppender.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/logging/logback/LoggingAppender.java
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ protected LoggingOptions getLoggingOptions() {
   }
 
   private LogEntry logEntryFor(ILoggingEvent e) {
-    StringBuilder payload = new StringBuilder(e.getFormattedMessage()).append('\n');
+    StringBuilder payload = new StringBuilder().append(e.getFormattedMessage()).append('\n');
     writeStack(e.getThrowableProxy(), "", payload);
 
     Level level = e.getLevel();