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Peter_McCann
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17 years ago

How do I change log file location (soapui.log soapui-errors.log)

HI,
  I'm using Soapui-2.0 on a RH Linux box, I'm a build engineer calling Ant from Hudson (sort of like cruise control but better imho) . i'm exec-ing a script to call a modified version of testrunner.sh and have hacked testrunner.sh to run with the following flags -a -j -h $host -f $resultsdir $xmlfile. The problem I have is the log files (soapui.log and soapui-errors.log) are being written to the ANT parent directory. I can probably change the location to SOAPUI_HOME by doing a chdir to SOAPUI_HOME in my script, However that would put all the log files from every build there.

I've been reading about soapui-log4j.xml , and soapui.properties  but I can't find any examples of either, and have exactly zero experience writing log4j.xml files.

I would like to have a way to write the log files to a results directory that gets clobbered before every run.

Thanks in advance for any help
Pete

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  • omatzura's avatar
    omatzura
    Super Contributor
    17 years ago
    Hi Pete,

    you can modify the soapui-log4j.xml file in the soapui-2.0.2.jar and put the modified file into the soapui\bin folder. Change the FILE and ERRORFILE appenders File parameter to the desired location.

    Hope this helps!

    regards,

    /Ole
    eviware.com
  • Peter_McCann's avatar
    Peter_McCann
    New Contributor
    17 years ago
    Thank you this works.

    I was able to set it as a variable. I added an additional flag to testrunner.sh

    soapui_log_dir=$4

    then passed it to to java.

    java -Dsoapui.properties=soapui.properties -
    Dsoapui.log.dir=${soapui_log_dir}     -cp $SOAPUI_CLASSPATH com.eviware.soapui.tools.SoapUITestCaseRunner $options

    This allows me to define the log dir on the fly from my ant task that kicks off the soap ui tests.

    In the soapui-log4j.xml file I changed the lines you suggested to
       
       
  • lemval's avatar
    lemval
    15 years ago
    Another way I found out is described below.
    This was needed for integrating SoapUI in a test utility (web application) for generating requests and responses based on the WSDL. This prevents the logs of the server/application to disappear from the server log file. To make it complete, I've also added a part of the WSDLMessageGenerator.

    if ( wsdlgen == null ) {
    // Make sure we maintain the environment
    SoapUI.setSoapUICore(new ServerSoapUICore());
    wsdlgen = new WSDLMessageGenerator();
    }
    ---------
    public class ServerSoapUICore extends DefaultSoapUICore {

    @Override
    protected void initLog() {
    // We keep on using the log of the server....
    log = Logger.getLogger( DefaultSoapUICore.class );
    }

    @Override
    public Settings getSettings() {
    if ( log == null ) {
    initLog();
    }
    return super.getSettings();
    }
    }
    ---------------------
    public class WSDLMessageGenerator {
    private WsdlProject project;
    private WsdlInterface iface;

    public WSDLMessageGenerator() throws Exception {
    project = new WsdlProject();
    }

    ....
    WsdlInterface[] wsdls = WsdlImporter.importWsdl(project, wsdlLocation);
    iface = wsdls[0];
    }


    Hope it helps!
    Mike.
  • ilyakharlamov's avatar
    ilyakharlamov
    13 years ago
    FYI:
    For SoapUI version 4 option -Dsoapui.log.dir is not valid anymore
    the proper name is -Dsoapui.logroot