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davidp_1
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9 years ago

Custom Logging of assert statements from Groovy script

I'd like to use the "assert" statement in Groovy and would like to put that nice output into a separate file. Right now I see that it goes into the error file (ready-api-errors.log), but I'd like the...
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nmrao
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May be a small hack, if that is ok, by changing
logger.info(e.getMessage())
to
logger.info('\n'+e.getMessage())
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davidp_1
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Thanks!

 

I have a different hack, though. I changed the layout conversion pattern parameters in the log4j appender definition to include the date plus an extra line break (%n parameter), like this:

 

         <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
            <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm:ss} %n%m%n"/>
        </layout>

 

With the results looking like this:

 

02-Dec-2015 09:26:17 
assert expected == actual
       |        |  |
       Some Text|  Some Unexpected Text
                false
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    nmrao
    Champion Level 3
    9 years ago
    Got you got over it.