How to write soapUI groovy script log into text file

Question

I have to write Groovy script log in to a text file, I am able to write request and response of any Soap step using context.expand.

To write test request and response I am using:

def request =  context.expand('${SoapRequest#Request}')
new File ("D:/RequestFile.txt").write(request)

What I want is to save the log output in a file:

Suggest me a way to write Groovy script log in a text file.

Config way log4j.xml

There is already a file for Groovy log configured in SOAPUI log4j configuration file.

In SOAPUI_HOME\bin\soapui-log4j.xml:

<appender name="GLOBAL_GROOVY_LOG" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
  <errorHandler class="org.apache.log4j.helpers.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
  <param name="File" value="${soapui.logroot}global-groovy.log"/>
  <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
  <param name="Append" value="true"/>
  <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
    <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n"/>
  </layout>      
</appender>

<logger name="groovy.log">
  <level value="INFO" />
  <appender-ref ref="GLOBAL_GROOVY_LOG" />
</logger>   

A possible way is to add another custom FileAppender in this config file. If you change this file remember to restart SOAPUI in order that it can load the changes.

Something like this can do the trick:

<appender name="GLOBAL_GROOVY_LOG" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
  <errorHandler class="org.apache.log4j.helpers.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
  <param name="File" value="${soapui.logroot}global-groovy.log"/>
  <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
  <param name="Append" value="true"/>
  <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
    <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n"/>
  </layout>      
</appender>

<appender name="MYLOG_CUSTOM" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
  <errorHandler class="org.apache.log4j.helpers.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
  <param name="File" value="/absoultePath/yourlogFile.txt"/>
  <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
  <param name="Append" value="true"/>
  <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
    <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n"/>
  </layout>      
</appender>

<logger name="groovy.log">
  <level value="INFO" />
  <appender-ref ref="GLOBAL_GROOVY_LOG" />
  <appender-ref ref="MYLOG_CUSTOM" />
</logger>   

Dinamically using Groovy

However it seems that you want to do it dynamically using Groovy script, hence you can use the follow code to get <logger name="groovy.log"> and add a FileAppender to it; in order that you can save the logs in a custom file:

import org.apache.log4j.Logger
import org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
import org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender

// get the groovy logger by name
def groovyLogger = Logger.getLogger('groovy.log')

// pattern Layout
PatternLayout layout = new PatternLayout("%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n")
// create a file appender
RollingFileAppender fileAppender = new RollingFileAppender(layout, "/absolutePath/myLog.txt")

groovyLogger.addAppender(fileAppender)

log.info 'someText to the logger'

NOTE: If you don't use an absolute path in FileAppender the log file is saved relative to *SOAPUI_HOME\bin*

When you configure this the rest of logs in Groovy testSteps will be appended to this file. If you want to get only the log for a specific Groovy testStep then you can simply remove the appender at the end of the script:

groovyLogger.removeAppender(fileAppender);

UPDATE:

From you comment: I want to store output for each run, and if I am executing this again it should rewrite the file.

So you want to store output for each run... but you want to overwrite the file if you execute again? This is contradictory isn't?

If you want to overwrite the file instead of append the content you can use setAppend(false):

fileAppender.setAppend(false)
fileAppender.activateOptions()
groovyLogger.addAppender(fileAppender)

Comments

[i.am.jabi]

I'm trying to use the groovy script to write logs to a custom log file, I can see that log file is getting created, but there are no logs in it.