Logging from extensions and scripts

In your extensions you will often need to log messages for info, debug and errors. This recipe provides a brief overview on how log messages to the soapui.log file, soapui log tab and groovy log tab.

Getting ready

To illustrate the logging approaches we'll add examples to a custom Action plugin based on the soapui-sample-plugin Gradle project from the previous recipe. You can find this in the plugins/soapui-logging-plugin folder of the chapter 11 samples.

How to do it...

Let's take a look at an example of each of the logging types. Here is the custom Action that will do the logging for us:

import org.apache.log4j.Logger import com.eviware.soapui.SoapUI import com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.WsdlProject import com.eviware.soapui.support.action.support.AbstractSoapUIAction ...

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