How to get rest-assured log into something printable in a text file

Question

I\'m working into a method trying to change the default rest-assured log (which goes to the console) to a file using log4j.

It\'s a JUnit project which methods final

Answer 1

Might be useful too: Here a class which redirects the restAssured log() calls to a supplied logger:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import org.slf4j.Logger;

/**
 * A wrapper class which takes a logger as constructor argument and offers a PrintStream whose flush
 * method writes the written content to the supplied logger (debug level).
 * 

 * Usage:
 
 * initializing in @BeforeClass of the unit test:
 * 
 *          ToLoggerPrintStream loggerPrintStream = new ToLoggerPrintStream( myLog );
 *          RestAssured.config = RestAssured.config().logConfig(
 *                                 new LogConfig( loggerPrintStream.getPrintStream(), true ) );
 * 
 * will redirect all log outputs of a ValidatableResponse to the supplied logger:
 * 
 *             resp.then().log().all( true );
 * 
 *
 * @version 1.0 (28.10.2015)
 * @author  Heri Bender
 */
public class ToLoggerPrintStream
{
    /** Logger for this class */
    private Logger myLog;
    private PrintStream myPrintStream;

/**
 * @return printStream
 */
public PrintStream getPrintStream()
{
    if ( myPrintStream == null )
    {
        OutputStream output = new OutputStream()
        {
            private StringBuilder myStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

            @Override
            public void write(int b) throws IOException 
            {
                this.myStringBuilder.append((char) b );
            }

            /**
             * @see java.io.OutputStream#flush()
             */
            @Override
            public void flush()
            {
                myLog.debug( this.myStringBuilder.toString() );
                myStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            }
        };

        myPrintStream = new PrintStream( output, true );  // true: autoflush must be set!
    }

    return myPrintStream;
}

/**
 * Constructor
 *
 * @param aLogger
 */
public ToLoggerPrintStream( Logger aLogger )
{
    super();
    myLog = aLogger;
}