How do I configure embedded jetty server to log all requests?

Question

I want to log all soap requests to my server. The server instance is an embedded jetty server.

Is there a way to setup a handler to do this. I have access to the web.xml file

Answer 1

You'll want the following on your embedded jetty startup...

(This is assuming Jetty 9)

HandlerCollection handlers = new HandlerCollection();
ContextHandlerCollection contexts = new ContextHandlerCollection();
// your context specific handlers are added to "contexts" here
server.setHandler(handlers);

NCSARequestLog requestLog = new NCSARequestLog();
requestLog.setFilename("/path/to/my/logs/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log");
requestLog.setFilenameDateFormat("yyyy_MM_dd");
requestLog.setRetainDays(90);
requestLog.setAppend(true);
requestLog.setExtended(true);
requestLog.setLogCookies(false);
requestLog.setLogTimeZone("GMT");
RequestLogHandler requestLogHandler = new RequestLogHandler();
requestLogHandler.setRequestLog(requestLog);
handlers.addHandler(requestLogHandler);

Answer 2

jetty maven:

   <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty.aggregate</groupId>
        <artifactId>jetty-all</artifactId>
        <version>9.3.8.v20160314</version>
        <type>pom</type> 
   </dependency>

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Code:

NCSARequestLog requestLog = new NCSARequestLog();
requestLog.setFilename("/path/to/my/logs/yyyy_mm_dd.request.log");
requestLog.setFilenameDateFormat("yyyy_MM_dd");
requestLog.setRetainDays(90);
requestLog.setAppend(true);
requestLog.setExtended(true);
requestLog.setLogCookies(false);
requestLog.setLogTimeZone("GMT"); // or GMT+2 and so on. 

server.setRequestLog(requestLog); // here will set global request log

NCSARequestLog is sync log, if you want to use log4j, do it like that:

public class AccessLogHandler extends AbstractNCSARequestLog {
    private Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(AccessLogHandler.class);
    @Override
    protected boolean isEnabled() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void write(String requestEntry) throws IOException {
        logger.info(requestEntry);
    }

}

use AccessLogHandler to replace the NCSARequestLog and config your log4j.properties.