Activating Activiti Logs and possibilty to use Activiti 5.10 with Grails Activiti Plugin 5.8

[Hyoga]

Hi, 

First, I would like to thank you for all the great job you're doing with this plugin. It's amazing, really. That plugin rocks !

But I'm facing some (minor) problems. 

First, I would like to activate the Activiti logs, in order to see them in the output of Netbeans. I've done some researchs, and have tried putting "org.activiti.level="FINEST"" in the Config file. That didn't work. I'm kind of stuck.

Second, in this topic (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grails-activiti-plugin/LQpnrluLUic), you said that we could change the Activiti dependencies version from 5.9 to 5.10 at https://github.com/limcheekin/activiti/blob/master/grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy. But forced to stay at the version 5.8 of the plugin (I'm using Grails 1.3.7), I dont find that file. Is there another way ? Or I have to stay at Activiti 5.8 ?

Thanks in advance

[Chee Kin Lim]

Hi Hyoga,

Thanks for your interest to the plugin.

I created 5.10 released for Grails 1.3.x at http://code.google.com/p/grails-activiti-plugin/downloads/detail?name=grails-activiti-5.10.zip. Please note that the install-vacation-request-sampleapp script was broken and you need to perform thorough testing yourself for this unofficial release.

As Activiti using java.util.logging for logging, please make sure grails.logging.jul.usebridge = true in your Config.groovy.

Hope this help.

Best regards,
Chee Kin

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[Hyoga]

Hi,

Thanks for 5.10 version. I'm gonna take a look at it.

For the Activiti logs, grails.logging.jul.usebridge was already in true.

Thanks for your response

[Chee Kin Lim]

Hi Hyoga,

After few hours of digging, try and error, I finally find out 2 ways to display Activiti log statements to console.

I tried the following ways in Grails 2.1.0:
1) The Grails way: add the following config to log4j closure in Config.groovy:
log4j = {
  root {
    info()
  }
  info 'org.activiti.engine'
  ...     
}

2) The java.util.logging way: download the logging.properties from http://grails-activiti-plugin.googlecode.com/files/logging.properties and copy it to grails-app/conf directory and execute "grails run-app --verbose".

Please try it in Grails 1.3.x and keep us inform which way is work for you.

Best regards,
Chee Kin

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[Hyoga]

Hi, 

Thank you kindly for your help. 

I tried both of your solutions, and I came out with the same end.

Solution 1. The only allusion about BPMN in the output is:

INFO  parser.BpmnParse  - XMLSchema currently not supported as typeLanguage

 INFO  deployer.BpmnDeployer  - Processing resource /Users/hyoga/NetBeansProjects/hradministration/./grails-app/conf/DemandeFormationCoris.bpmn20.xml

Solution 2. First I didn't have any results, so I made that change:

java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level=ALL

 And I ended with the same result than the Solution 1.

Actually I was hoping that kind of result: here (the second post) when I complete a task for exemple. Instead, apart of my quote above, I don't have anything else. May be what I'm getting is the correct output, in my case...

Best regards

[Andy]

I've also not been able to get any logging out of the activity engine. I've tried grails.logging.jul.usebridge true and false, and both Solution 1 & 2 - nothing seems to work. Has anyone had success getting detailed logging with Grails 2.1?

Andy

[Chee Kin Lim]

Hi there,

You may get some idea for make the logging of activiti engine work at http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/?p=1654

Please try it out to see whether it work.

Hope this help.

Best regards,
Chee Kin

[Andy]

Yes, super-informative! Thanks Chee Kin!

 I had a feeling it was related to the bridge not passing the log level back to JUL.

Andy

[Bryan Hughes]

Care to share how you got it working?

[Andy]

I never got it to work except by setting it programatically..like:

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.activiti").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);

One decent option is to do this in BootStrap.groovy, though:

def init = { servletContext ->

environments {

production { }

development {

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.activiti").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);