Apache BeanUtils.copyProperties is spilling too much log

Question

How can I switch off logging for BeanUtils.copyProperties ? It creates way too much logs and hampers the log file readability. Thanks heaps..

Sample code

BeanUtils.copyProperties(someDataobject,someActionForm);

In the log I see hunders of lines like below

EBUG org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils - setSimpleProperty:
Invoking method public void someMethod(java.lang.String) with value null (class )
2010-03-23 18:53:23,134 DEBUG org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils - copyProperty(someActionForm@13e38a7, someValue, )

Answer 1

Typically you can configure the logging level of each class individually. This depends a bit on which logging framework you are using but adding something like the following to your logging configuration file:

org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils.level=SEVERE

Should restrict the logger in that class to only output SEVERE logging statements.

You can also silence the entire package with

org.apache.commons.beanutils.level=SEVERE

If you want more details, you'll have to provide more context.

Answer 2

If you used log4j you can use

log4j.logger.org.apache.commons.beanutils=ERROR

more details see log4j manual