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Oleg Kalnichevski updated HTTPCLIENT-609:
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Fix Version/s: 4.0 Alpha 1
Priority: Minor (was: Major)
> Use TRACE logging instead of DEBUG for the absolute nitty-gritties
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> Key: HTTPCLIENT-609
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-609
> Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.1 Beta 1
> Environment: n/a
> Reporter: Endre Stølsvik
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.0 Alpha 1
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>
> [This is basically a copy of the Spring improvement request SPR-2873:
> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-2873 )
> Given a developer situation: Much of the DEBUG information in the log of
> HttpClient is very un-interesting as long as it works. Some of these lines
> are however of much bigger importance than others (thus turning off DEBUG
> globally for HttpClient isn't good either).
> TRACE and DEBUG are the two developer-centric logging levels of log4j and
> commons logging (the rest are "production levels"). Since log4j-1.2.12, TRACE
> have existed. Clogging have always had trace, but before release 1.1 mapped
> Log.trace to log4j's DEBUG, but 1.1 (released May 9. 2006) now maps to
> log4j's TRACE.
> I think that HttpClient's logging would benefit a lot by using TRACE level
> extensively, in that developers could turn all of httpclient's logging down
> to DEBUG, but still see "major developer events" like connections being
> opened, the request being sent, and e.g. the response's status line, size of
> headers and body, keep-alive vs. closing of connection.
> Candidates for TRACE level include:
> * httpclient.wire.*
> * org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.DefaultHttpParams
> * org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase
> * .. and probably a bunch of others that doesn't bring the developer in the
> standard "good flow mode" any highly interesting information.
> Please note that I do NOT view these lines as worthless. It is however in
> _normal_ developer circumstances not valuable information, and it would ease
> development if it was possible to turn these ultra-verbose loglines off
> easily. When things just aren't working out, and your exciting REST-based
> query doesn't work out, or your charset encodings just doesn't give what
> you're expecting, you'd turn on TRACE to really get down to the hard core.
> You'd find the problem, fix it, and set it to DEBUG again.
> In addition, the lines that were left on the DEBUG level should obviously be
> as informative as possible, and thus maybe somewhat more verbose than now,
> trying to "aggregate" some pieces of information that now are output over
> several DEBUG lines..
> I do realize that I could achive a lot of this with a rather extensive log
> configuration, that also had to include raw text filters, but I do believe
> that this affects more developers than me!
> PS: it wouldn't hurt either if all of httpclient's log-lines came from a
> common root, e.g. "HttpClient", or "org.apache.commons.httpclient", instead
> of having several roots. This would however be a somewhat "backward
> incompatible" change, since it now has (at least?) two roots.
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