From 49356a792ac8b2c7fde6fe8429784c6e706802b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:39:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] make NOPLoggingEventBuilder constructor private and allow
 access via the singleton

---
 .../main/java/org/slf4j/spi/NOPLoggingEventBuilder.java    | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/slf4j-api/src/main/java/org/slf4j/spi/NOPLoggingEventBuilder.java b/slf4j-api/src/main/java/org/slf4j/spi/NOPLoggingEventBuilder.java
index 41c486d92..487f47ce4 100755
--- a/slf4j-api/src/main/java/org/slf4j/spi/NOPLoggingEventBuilder.java
+++ b/slf4j-api/src/main/java/org/slf4j/spi/NOPLoggingEventBuilder.java
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 
 /**
  * A no-operation implementation of {@link LoggingEventBuilder}. 
- * As the name indicates, this implementation does nothing.
+ * As the name indicates, this implementation does nothing or alternatively returns
+ * a singleton, i.e. the unique instance of this class.
  * 
  * @author Ceki G&uuml;lc&uuml;
  * @since 2.0.0
@@ -16,6 +17,10 @@ public class NOPLoggingEventBuilder implements LoggingEventBuilder {
 
     static final NOPLoggingEventBuilder SINGLETON = new NOPLoggingEventBuilder();
 
+    
+    private NOPLoggingEventBuilder() {
+    }
+    
     public static LoggingEventBuilder singleton() {
         return SINGLETON;
     }