How to print to console in Spring Boot Web Application

Question

Coming from a Node background, what is the equivalent of console.log() in spring boot?

For example I'd like to see in my console the job info in the following method.

@RequestMapping(value = "jobposts/create", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public Job create(@RequestBody Job job){
    System.out.println(job);
    return jobRepository.saveAndFlush(job);
}

System.out.println(); is how I know to do it in Java but it doesn't seem to appear in my console. Using IntelliJ.

Answer 1

System.out.println(job); like you have done.

It prints something like yourpackage.Job@2g45e0f9

Try to execute you code using debug mode and see if the post method will be executed as it has to do.

Answer 2

Did you tried adding console appender in you logging configuration file.? Here is how you can do in slf4j + logback ecosystem

in logback.xml,

<configuration>
<appender name="consoleAppender" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
    <encoder class="net.logstash.logback.encoder.LogstashEncoder">
        <timeZone>UTC</timeZone>
    </encoder>
</appender>
<logger name="com.yourcompany.packagename" level="INFO" additivity="false">
    <appender-ref ref="consoleAppender" />
</logger>
<root level="ERROR">
    <appender-ref ref="consoleAppender" />
</root>
</configuration>