How do you get logging from the CXF Rest Client?

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This took me quite a long time to figure out. I'm asking this question so I can answer it for others:

How do you get useful logging info from the CXF Rest Client? EG: The url, params, payload, response, etc.

Note: This question already exists but it's asking about CXF and Resteasy. I only want the answer for CXF: Logging in CXF and RestEasy clients

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 25 '17 at 21:25

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Here's how you do it with CXF:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider;
import org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingInInterceptor;
import org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingOutInterceptor;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ClientConfiguration;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
...
    WebClient client = WebClient.create(endPoint, providers).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
    ClientConfiguration config = WebClient.getConfig(client);
    config.getInInterceptors().add(new LoggingInInterceptor());
    config.getOutInterceptors().add(new LoggingOutInterceptor());

edited Jul 25 '17 at 21:25

Sridhar Sarnobat

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answered Jan 10 '15 at 00:33

Daniel Kaplan

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This is still correct, but deprecated, do you know how to do it with features? – cocorossello Feb 02 '19 at 22:27
@cocorossello sorry, but I try to avoid this tech now. I prefer what Spring provides, so I haven't used this in years. – Daniel Kaplan Feb 02 '19 at 22:32

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '18 at 19:02

Using the JAX-RS 2.0 client from CXF 3.1.x I am having some trouble getting the LoggingInInterceptor and LoggingOutInterceptor to work. I changed to use the LoggingFeature as described at http://cxf.apache.org/docs/message-logging.html and it worked first try:

Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder().register(LoggingFeature.class).build()

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 03 '22 at 12:37

You can pass directly an instance of LoggingFeature to your client using the appropriate create() method.

Response response = WebClient
                .create(baseAddress,
                        Arrays.<Object>asList(Arrays
                                .<Object>asList(new JacksonJsonProvider())),
                        Arrays.<Feature>asList(new LoggingFeature()), null)
                .type(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
                .accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).path(path).post(request);

How do you get logging from the CXF Rest Client?

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