Enable logging in SpringMVC, not using Spring-boot

1. You can implement a Filter class extending from OncePerRequestFilter and then every request will go through you filter. Then you can log what you want inside this class.

    @Slf4j
    @Component
    public class RequestLoggingFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {
        @Override
        protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) throws ServletException, IOException {
            log.debug(
                    String.format("FILTERED URL: %s", request.getRequestURI())
            );

            //continue filtering
            filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
        }
    }

2. Another way is to implement an Interceptor class extending from HandlerInterceptorAdapter.

    @Slf4j
    @Component
    public class RequestLoggingHandler extends HandlerInterceptorAdapter {

        @Override
        public boolean preHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object handler) throws Exception {
            log.debug(
                    String.format("HANDLER(pre) URL: %s", request.getRequestURI())
            );

            return super.preHandle(request, response, handler);
        }

        @Override
        public void postHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object handler, ModelAndView modelAndView) throws Exception {
            log.debug(
                    String.format("HANDLER(post) URL: %s", request.getRequestURI())
            );

            super.postHandle(request, response, handler, modelAndView);
        }
    }

But you have to enable this interceptor by adding it via configuration explicitly.

    @Configuration
    public class WebApplicationConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {

        @Setter(onMethod_ = @Autowired)
        private RequestLoggingHandler requestLogger;

        @Override
        public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
            registry.addInterceptor(requestLogger);
        }
    }

3. One more way is to use standard CommonsRequestLoggingFilter.

This way you should configure it with configuration like:

@Configuration
public class RequestLoggingFilterConfig {

    @Bean
    public CommonsRequestLoggingFilter logFilter() {
        CommonsRequestLoggingFilter filter
          = new CommonsRequestLoggingFilter();
        filter.setIncludeQueryString(true);
        filter.setIncludePayload(true);
        filter.setMaxPayloadLength(10000);
        filter.setIncludeHeaders(false);
        filter.setAfterMessagePrefix("REQUEST DATA : ");
        return filter;
    }
}

And then enable it into logback.xml:

<logger name="org.springframework.web.filter.CommonsRequestLoggingFilter">
    <level value="DEBUG" />
</logger>

Well in order to enable logging in Spring Application all you need is

Log library and its property file

To make Log4j work with the default JCL dependency (commons-logging) all you need to do is put Log4j on the classpath, and provide it with a configuration file (log4j.properties or log4j.xml in the root of the classpath).

<dependency>
      <groupId>log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.14</version>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
   </dependency>

log4j.properties

log4j.rootCategory=INFO, stdout

log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %t %c{2}:%L - %m%n

log4j.category.org.springframework.beans.factory=DEBUG

Refer Spring doc and sample project

Using Interceptor you can achieve this one.Check below links,you will get an idea

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spring-mvc-handlerinterceptor

spring-mvc-4-how-to-intercept-request-with-a-handlerinterceptor

Edit:

Using CommonsRequestLoggingFilter

Spring MVC provides CommonsRequestLoggingFilter which can log request URL, body and other related information.

CommonsRequestLoggingFilter

LoggingConfig.java

import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;

import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;

@Configuration
@PropertySource("classpath:logging.properties")
public class LoggingConfig {

    @Autowired
    private Environment env;

    public CommonsRequestLoggingFilter requestLoggingFilter() {
        CommonsRequestLoggingFilter loggingFilter = new CommonsRequestLoggingFilter();
        loggingFilter.setIncludeClientInfo(env.getProperty("logging.client"));
        loggingFilter.setIncludeQueryString(env.getProperty("logging.query"));
        loggingFilter.setIncludePayload(env.getProperty("logging.payload"));
        loggingFilter.setIncludeHeaders(env.getProperty("logging.headers"));
        return loggingFilter;
    }

    @Bean
    public CommonsRequestLoggingFilter springLogging() {
        Logger logger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(CommonsRequestLoggingFilter.class);
                logger.setLevel(Level.DEBUG);
        return requestLoggingFilter();
    }
}

logging.properties

logging.client = true
logging.query = true
logging.payload = true
logging.headers = true