How to enable logging for apache commons HttpClient on Android

Question

To enable logging for apache commons HttpClient in normal Java application I used:

System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime", "true"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire", "debug"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.commons.httpclient", "debug"); 

But on android I don't see logs in LogCat.

Am I missing some thing?

Answer 1

Ignore my earlier comment. I found the solution on the org.apache.http logging page. Your original answer was referring to httpclient-3.x logging, and the working code for recent versions comes from http-components logging

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.apache.http.wire").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST); java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.apache.http.headers").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);  System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime", "true"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire", "debug"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http", "debug"); System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.headers", "debug"); 

and properties:

adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http VERBOSE adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http.wire VERBOSE adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http.headers VERBOSE 

The difference is in the logging tag names.

Answer 2

Here is a solution (without digging into details)

Console:

adb shell setprop log.tag.httpclient.wire.header VERBOSE adb shell setprop log.tag.httpclient.wire.content VERBOSE 

Code:

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("httpclient.wire.header").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST); java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("httpclient.wire.content").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST); 

Test:

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("httpclient.wire.content").log(java.util.logging.Level.CONFIG, "hola");