How to enable pretty logging of SOAP messages in JBoss 7

Question

I have enabled SOAP logging by adding following in standalone.xml as described in Jboss Advanced User Guide:

<system-properties>
  <property name="org.apache.cxf.logging.enabled" value="true"/>
</system-properties>

This configuration does not pretty print XML messages. I am sure that CXF supports pretty printing since there is a AbstractLoggingInterceptor.setPrettyLogging() method in the library.

How can I enable pretty printing of SOAP requests and responses in JBoss 7.

Answer 1

Using org.apache.cxf.logging.enabled property is the right way, it accepts value "pretty" for nicely formatted xml output

<system-properties>
  <property name="org.apache.cxf.logging.enabled" value="pretty"/>
</system-properties>

For details see https://github.com/apache/cxf/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/bus/extension/ExtensionManagerBus.java#L68-L72

Answer 2

Even though Serdal's answer is correct, it does not look practical to me.

My solution

I removed org.apache.cxf.logging.enabled system property and used following code to enable SOAP logging:

Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(port);

LoggingInInterceptor inInterceptor = new LoggingInInterceptor();
inInterceptor.setPrettyLogging(true);
client.getInInterceptors().add(inInterceptor);

LoggingOutInterceptor outInterceptor = new LoggingOutInterceptor();
outInterceptor.setPrettyLogging(true);
client.getOutInterceptors().add(outInterceptor);