How to get jersey logs at server?

Question

I am using jersey for a REST WS. How do I enable jersey logs at server side?

Long story: I get a clientside exception - but I don\'t see anything in tomcat logs [It

Answer 1

If you want to turn on logging on the server side, you need to register the LoggingFilter Jersey filter (on the container side).

This filter will log request/response headers and entities.

Here's what you need to add to your ResourceConfig class:

@ApplicationPath("/")
public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {

    public MyApplication() {
        // Resources.
        packages(MyResource.class.getPackage().getName());

        register(LoggingFilter.class);    
    }
}

Note that the same filter also works on the client side.

Client client = Client.create();
client.addFilter(new LoggingFilter());