dependencies { compile 'com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.3' compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-core', version: '4.3.5.RELEASE' compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-beans', version: '4.3.5.RELEASE' compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-context', version: '4.3.5.RELEASE' compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-expression', version: '4.3.5.RELEASE' compile group: 'org.mongodb', name: 'mongo-java-driver', version: '3.4.1' compile group: 'com.google.code.gson', name: 'gson', version: '1.7.2' compile group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '11.0.2' compile group: 'log4j', name: 'log4j', version: '1.2.17' }
This is my log4j.properties file:# Root logger option log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout, file # Redirect log messages to console log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n # Redirect log messages to a log file, support file rolling. log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.file.File=C:\\log4j-application.log log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=5MB log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=10 log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
I just wanted simple logging to a file and I added log4j dependency to my project. This was unnecessary since sparkjava already provides slf4j-simple that can be used for this purpose.
I removed log4j dependency from my build.gradle, added simplelogger.properties to my classpath and configured it for writing logs to a file on a disk.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.7.22</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.7.22</version>
</dependency>
compiile ('org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.22')
runtime ('org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.22')