How to add line breaks in SOAP response logged by Log4j?

[Maya Anykeyer]

Hello. I set up my log4j:configuration file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd"> <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/"> <!-- Appenders --> <appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender"> <param name="Target" value="System.out" /> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p: [%d{MMM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}] %c{3} - %m%n" /> </layout> </appender> <!-- File Appender --> <appender name="file" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender"> <param name="File" value="${catalina.home}/logs/spring-ws-mayaapp.log"/> <param name="MaxFileSize" value="10000KB"/> <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="20"/> <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"> <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p: [%d{MMM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS}] %c{3} - %m%n" /> </layout> </appender> <!-- Spring Webservice XML --> <logger name="org.springframework.ws.server.MessageTracing.received"> <level value="TRACE"/> <appender-ref ref="console"/> <appender-ref ref="file"/> </logger> <logger name="org.springframework.ws.server.MessageTracing.sent"> <level value="TRACE"/> <appender-ref ref="console"/> <appender-ref ref="file"/> </logger> </log4j:configuration>

In my console and log file i receive next logged response from server. It looks like :

TRACE: [may-15 16:41:04,341] server.MessageTracing.sent - Sent response [<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><SOAP-ENV:Header/><SOAP-ENV:Body>a long, long unformated string without any line breaks</SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>] for request ......

The question is: how to add pretty format with line breaks between xml tags in logged soap response? Does log4j support this feature?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Maya, welcome to CodeRanch!

Log4j doesn't play a role here since the original message being logged (from some library) itself doesn't have the necessary formatting in that text. You'll have to check who is logging that message and probably change the code to format the message being logged, before passing that message to the logger.