Remote log service

REST service to log messages on the server. Created to collect logging messages from mobile applications, and allow log analysis.

Service is created with a minimal Spring Boot application. Logging is performed with logback, you can tweak the output in logback-spring.xml configuration file.

The server use HTTPS but the certificate is self-signed, clients are required to accept the certificate as valid.

Build

Requirements:

• Java JDK 14+
• Maven 3

Usage

Launch server app with:

mvn compile spring-boot:run

You will get a REST service with at following endpoint:

• https://<SERVER ADDRESS>:8443/api/log
• HTTP METHOD: POST
• Expected parameters should be in the REQUEST BODY with media type application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Parameter names:

• priority (int),
• tag (String, optional),
• message (String)

Priority is one of

• 2 (TRACE)
• 3 (DEBUG)
• 4 (INFO)
• 5 (WARN)
• 6 (ERROR)