Allow subclasses to insert custom fields

Protected method that subclasses can override to insert arbitrary custom fields in the logback encoder. #147

logback-ecs-encoder/src/main/java/co/elastic/logging/logback/EcsEncoder.java

@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ public byte[] encode(ILoggingEvent event) {
                 EcsJsonSerializer.serializeOrigin(builder, callerData[0]);
             }
         }
+        // Allow subclasses to add custom fields. Calling this before the throwable serialization so we don't need to check for presence/absence of an ending comma.
+        addCustomFields(event, builder);
         IThrowableProxy throwableProxy = event.getThrowableProxy();
         if (throwableProxy instanceof ThrowableProxy) {
             EcsJsonSerializer.serializeException(builder, ((ThrowableProxy) throwableProxy).getThrowable(), stackTraceAsArray);
@@ -125,6 +127,13 @@ public byte[] encode(ILoggingEvent event) {
         return builder.toString().getBytes(UTF_8);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Subclasses can override this to add custom fields.
+     * The last character in the StringBuilder will be comma when this is called.
+     * You must add a comma after each custom field.
+     */
+    protected void addCustomFields(ILoggingEvent event, StringBuilder builder) {}
+
     private void serializeMarkers(ILoggingEvent event, StringBuilder builder) {
         Marker marker = event.getMarker();
         if (includeMarkers && marker != null) {