[2.0] Enable logging for tests

[Larry Edelstein]

How can I enable logging when I'm running tests? I assume it will require a tweak to source code, but I'm not sure where.

I've read that the logging was disabled because it caused huge Permgen leaks, but I'd like to be able to use it from time to time. Seeing our own application logging is -pretty darn important- when trying to figure out why tests are failing.

Larry Edelstein

Sr. Software Engineer

Klout, Inc.

[Larry Edelstein]

I found I can enable logging by specifying one of logger's system properties a la:

System.setProperty("logger.file", "conf/logger.xml")

I'd sure like to turn that on and off from the sbt shell, but I haven't figured out how, yet, so I'm placing that line at the top of my specification.

[peter hausel]

Logging is disabled for tests temporary due to pergem leaks in logback. There is a new SBT feature about forking the JVM for test which will let us re-enable logging in tests. Once a new version of sbt is released with this feature, we will switch over and change back logging for tests.

Thanks,

Peter

[Alex Jarvis]

Is there any update on this?

Thanks,

Alex

[Radzislaw Galler]

No progress here, but there is a workaround here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11597102/how-to-force-logger-debug-output-in-play-framework-specs2-tests

[Ben McCann]

Here's the bug to follow if you want to track the issue:

https://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401-play-20/tickets/626-reenable-logging-in-tests