[play 2.4.1] Logback not writing to file

[toniObject]

Hi all,

I'm trying to configure logback to write to a file. This is my logback.xml so far (it's the default configuration from the play docs).

<!--

  ~ Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Typesafe Inc. <http://www.typesafe.com>

  -->

<!-- The default logback configuration that Play uses if no other configuration is provided -->

<configuration>

    <conversionRule conversionWord="coloredLevel" converterClass="play.api.Logger$ColoredLevel" />

    <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">

        <file>${application.home}/logs/application.log</file>

        <encoder>

            <pattern>%date [%level] from %logger in %thread - %message%n%xException</pattern>

        </encoder>

    </appender>

    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">

        <encoder>

            <pattern>%coloredLevel %logger{15} - %message%n%xException{10}</pattern>

        </encoder>

    </appender>

    <appender name="ASYNCFILE" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">

        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />

    </appender>

    <appender name="ASYNCSTDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.AsyncAppender">

        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />

    </appender>

    <logger name="play" level="INFO" />

    <logger name="application" level="DEBUG" />

    <!-- Off these ones as they are annoying, and anyway we manage configuration ourself -->

    <logger name="com.avaje.ebean.config.PropertyMapLoader" level="OFF" />

    <logger name="com.avaje.ebeaninternal.server.core.XmlConfigLoader" level="OFF" />

    <logger name="com.avaje.ebeaninternal.server.lib.BackgroundThread" level="OFF" />

    <logger name="com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript" level="OFF" />

    <root level="WARN">

        <appender-ref ref="ASYNCFILE" />

        <appender-ref ref="ASYNCSTDOUT" />

    </root>

</configuration>

I removed all log entries in the main application.conf and have seperated application.conf files. I start the application by this command line "sbt 'run -Dconfig.resource=application.local.dev.conf'". I think the logback.xml in conf folder isn't recognized, but why? I also tried this command line "-Dlogger.resource=logback.xml" with the same result. Anybody an idea? 

Regards, 

Toni

[Will Sargent]

Turn on <root level="TRACE"> in your logback.xml file before you do anything else -- there just might not be anything wrong that needed to be logged.

As far as setting up stuff on the command line -- the settings that you're looking at are for deployment / production, and "sbt run" is the development mode.  If you want to change any system properties there, you need to do:

fork in run := true

javaOptions in run ++= Seq("/my/logback-dev.xml") 

etc.  

Will.

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[toniObject]

Hi Will,

Thank you for the suggestions and sorry for the late response. I changed the logback.xml like this:

    <root level="TRACE"/>

</configuration>

This still doesn't work for me. Any other ideas?

Regards, 

Toni

[Will Sargent]

Did you try changing the build.sbt settings I described?

[Elton Marku]

Hi Will,

thank your for tip, I realized that the logging is ok in production. The changes in .sbt made it possible to log also in dev mode into the file. 

Thanks!

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