Output location of mvn appengine:devserver_start

[Aleem Mawani]

I'm using the maven appengine plugin and starting the devserver asynchronously using mvn appengine:devserver_start. If you use the synchronous version mvn appengine:devserverthe server output is printed to the console.

However when using devserver_start where is the server output logged to?

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi aloo!

Really good question, I have no clue right now and I'm not even sure the server output IS logged. Looking into the options you can't force where it goes, so if it does exist, it'll be a file that never really changes location (maybe check your user data?).

A way to get this from a different angle might be to make a Feature Request on the maven app engine plugin issue tracker to have a flag to control the output of the async dev server? https://code.google.com/p/appengine-maven-plugin/issues/list is the URL for the Issue Tracker. 

Good luck finding this out!

Cheers!

[Aleem Mawani]

How would I go about finding out whether its logged to a fixed file or not?

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

This is all conjecture at this point, since I don't know the answer. But since you can't force where the log go, I have to guess that it's a fixed file (or at least a fixed location).

The only way I can think of doing this is to spin up your devserver and then do a search on files created/modified recently. I'm not even certain that this actually logs anything, to be honest.

Cheers