How to enable logging for apache commons HttpClient on Android

Question

To enable logging for apache commons HttpClient in normal Java application I used:

System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime", "true");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire", "debug");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.commons.httpclient", "debug");

But on android I don't see logs in LogCat.

Am I missing some thing?

Answer 1

Here is a solution (without digging into details)

Console:

adb shell setprop log.tag.httpclient.wire.header VERBOSE
adb shell setprop log.tag.httpclient.wire.content VERBOSE

Code:

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("httpclient.wire.header").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("httpclient.wire.content").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);

Test:

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("httpclient.wire.content").log(java.util.logging.Level.CONFIG, "hola");

Answer 2

Ignore my earlier comment. I found the solution on the org.apache.http logging page. Your original answer was referring to httpclient-3.x logging, and the working code for recent versions comes from http-components logging

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.apache.http.wire").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.apache.http.headers").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST);

System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime", "true");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire", "debug");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http", "debug");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.headers", "debug");

and properties:

adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http VERBOSE
adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http.wire VERBOSE
adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http.headers VERBOSE

The difference is in the logging tag names. Reference: