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Chapter 22. Logging

22.1. Logging traffic

22.1.1. Introduction

Jersey Logging supports the logging request and response via internal client and server filters, which are configured and registered by LoggingFeature 's properties. LoggingFeature has been introduced in Jersey 2.23 version and deprecates an older LoggingFilter.

LoggingFeature might be discovered by auto-discoverable mechanism or initialized by registering on client or server components. Client or server logging filter is initialized depending on which context is LoggingFeature registered with.

22.1.2. Configuration and registering

22.1.2.1. Configuration options

Configurable options

  • Logger name

    Defines a logger used to log request and response messages.

    Default value is LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_LOGGER_NAME.

  • Logger level

    Defines level that will be used to log messages by logging filters. Messages will be logged only if the effective level of the logger allows it.

    Default value is LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_LOGGER_LEVEL.

  • Verbosity

    Verbosity determines how detailed message will be logged. See LoggingFeature.Verbosity javadoc.

    Note that the entity is logged up to the specified maximum number of bytes (see LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE).

    Default value is LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_VERBOSITY.

  • Maximum entity size

    Maximum number of entity bytes to be logged (and buffered) - if the entity is larger, logging filter will print (and buffer in memory) only the specified number of bytes and print "...more..." string at the end. Negative values are interpreted as zero.

    Default value LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_MAX_ENTITY_SIZE.

  • Redact HTTP headers

    HTTP headers with sensitive information can be configured to print "[redacted]" in place of their real values. This should be a string with the names of the HTTP headers to be redacted, each entry separated by a semicolon (;). Header names will be compared in a case-insensitive manner and ignoring initial or trailing whitespaces.

    Default value LoggingFeature.DEFAULT_REDACT_HEADERS.

22.1.2.2. Configuration properties

The feature is enabled on when auto-discoverable mechanism is not disabled and at least one of the feature's property is set. For enabling client or server logging filter one of the common properties or _CLIENT suffixed properties, or _SERVER properties respectively.

An example of initializing server-side logging with the highest verbosity.

Example 22.1. Logging on the client side

    ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();
    clientConfig.property(LoggingFeature.LOGGING_FEATURE_VERBOSITY_CLIENT, LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_ANY);
    Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient(clientConfig);
                        


The LoggingFeature might be registered explicitly on ResourceConfig for server-side logging or on Client for client-side logging.

Example 22.2. Register LoggingFeature via constructor

        ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(HelloWorldResource.class);
        config.register(new LoggingFeature(LOGGER, LoggingFeature.Verbosity.PAYLOAD_ANY));

Following examples demonstrate registering LoggingFeature on server-side with default values and values defined by one of the public constructors (see LoggingFeature).

Example 22.3. Register LoggingFeature class

        ResourceConfig config = new ResourceConfig(HelloWorldResource.class);
        config.register(LoggingFeature.class);

An example of server-side logging with entity Hello World!

  1 May 09, 2016 2:55:33 PM org.glassfish.jersey.logging.LoggingInterceptor log
  2 INFO: 1 * Server has received a request on thread grizzly-http-server-0
  3 1 > GET http://localhost:9998/helloworld
  4 1 > accept: text/plain
  5 1 > accept-encoding: gzip,deflate
  6 1 > connection: Keep-Alive
  7 1 > host: localhost:9998
  8 1 > user-agent: Jersey/3.0-SNAPSHOT (Apache HttpClient 4.5)
  9 
 10 May 09, 2016 2:55:33 PM org.glassfish.jersey.logging.LoggingInterceptor log
 11 INFO: 1 * Server responded with a response on thread grizzly-http-server-0
 12 1 < 200
 13 1 < Content-Type: text/plain
 14 Hello World!