Allow logging REST endpoint mappings independent of other log categories

[lrozenblyum]

Affects: Spring Web MVC 5.3.3

After upgrading from Spring4 to Spring5.3 we face a problem: there is no easy way to log just mappings of Controllers to endpoints.

The expected scenario: during booting a Spring MVC web application we would like to have all endpoint mappings in logs. However we don't want all request processing by Spring MVC to be logged because it would generate enormous amount of logs in production.

Currently, if we enable TRACE log level for org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping
we receive both needed logs during boot of the webapp but also all requests processed are logged RequestMappingHandlerMapping - Mapped to ...).

Please provide a way to just log the endpoint mappings.

The issue was discussed in SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40621044/log-restful-endpoints-on-container-startup-in-a-spring-application

[rstoyanchev]

This has been discussed before. The number of endpoints can vary a lot. For a few controllers it is not an issue but for most applications tens or hundreds of endpoints is too much and floods log output. If necessary to show for debugging, mappings can be enabled at TRACE, as you have done, but otherwise they don't need to shown on every startup.

At runtime you can also use Boot's actuator to check mappings.

That aside we can create a log category that can be used to control the logging of handler mappings only.

[lrozenblyum]

I see, thanks for the explanation, @rstoyanchev!
Creating a log category of handler mappings only seems very reasonable and will help solving the issue!

[lrozenblyum]

Thanks @rstoyanchev !