Spring 4, JPA, Turn off console debug messages - spring

Question

I have a basic Spring 4 JPA application. I use all Java configurations (no XML at all). I want to turn off the console debug messages. I have seen many questions on this and tried the solutions but still I see all the messages.
The console messages look like this:
14:58:29.301 [main] DEBUG o.h.loader.entity.plan.EntityLoader....
14:58:29.328 [main] INFO o.h.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaUpdate....
....
14:58:29.905 [main] DEBUG o.h.h.i.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl - --- HQL AST ---
\-[QUERY] Node: 'query'
\-[SELECT_FROM] Node: 'SELECT_FROM'
+-[FROM] Node: 'from'
| \-[RANGE] Node: 'RANGE'
| +-[DOT] Node: '.'
| | +-[IDENT] Node: 'hello'
| | \-[IDENT] Node: 'Customer'
| \-[ALIAS] Node: 'generatedAlias0'
\-[SELECT] Node: 'select'
\-[IDENT] Node: 'generatedAlias0'
....
Hundreds of lines more....
I tried to set show_sql both in the HibernateJpaVendorAdapter and in the LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean as shown below:
#Bean
public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() throws SQLException {
HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(true);
vendorAdapter.setShowSql(false);
LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new
LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
factory.setPackagesToScan("hello");
factory.setDataSource(dataSource());
Properties jpaProperties = new Properties();
jpaProperties.put( "hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect" );
jpaProperties.put( "hibernate.show_sql", false );
jpaProperties.put( "show_sql", false );
jpaProperties.put( "hibernate.generate_statistics", false );
factory.setJpaProperties(jpaProperties);
factory.afterPropertiesSet();
return factory.getObject();
}
Thank you for any ideas on this!
-- Edit -- more info
What I do is create a Spring Starter Project with Spring Tools Suite and just select JPA. I then add MySQL to my pom.xml.
As a test I have a basic Customer and CustomerRepository class and the JPA configuration I noted above.
My Application class:
#Configuration
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
AbstractApplicationContext context = new
AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(JPAConfiguration.class);
CustomerRepository repository = context.getBean(CustomerRepository.class);
//use the repository.....
((AbstractApplicationContext) context).close();
context.close();
}
}
So that is it -- a very basic JPA Spring Starter Project created with Spring Tools Suite. If I could figure out how to deal with logging in that I could translate that info to my actual project.
-- Edit -- even more info -- and it's fixed!
OK this is interesting...
I changed my Application class and the problem goes away.
So using the this Application (vs. the one posted above) and the logging problem is now OK -- anyone who could comment why this works like this?
#Configuration
#ComponentScan
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ConfigurableApplicationContext context =
SpringApplication.run(Application.class);
CustomerRepository repository = context.getBean(CustomerRepository.class);
//use the repository.....
context.close();
}
}
Note the solution provided below by Alan Hay also works great regardless of how I do the Application class!
Note with either way you can still set setJpaProperties as shown my configuration (see Bean above) to control if you want to see Hibernate's SQL, etc.

Answer 1

I encountered the same issue recently. It appears Spring 4 uses the logback library for logging and my app only had a log4j config file. Adding an additional logging configuration file for logback solved the issue.
If you have an existing log4j config file there is a tool to convert this to logback format here:
http://logback.qos.ch/translator/
If not try adding a file named logback.xml to the root of your classpath:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<appender name="A1" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<encoder>
<pattern>%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss} %-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
<logger name="org.springframework" level="ERROR"/>
<logger name="org.hibernate" level="ERROR"/>
<root level="DEBUG">
<appender-ref ref="A1"/>
</root>
</configuration>