decided to use logback with slf4j, seems stable and good. It works no…

…w with no warnings from terminal, whereas from IDE we keep (after uncountable hours) getting SLF4J: No SLF4J providers were found. Log is correctly written to file but also ends up in console, which has to be fixed

pom.xml

@@ -163,20 +163,11 @@
                 <version>5.9.2</version>
                 <scope>test</scope>
             </dependency>
+            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/ch.qos.logback/logback-classic -->
             <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-                <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-                <version>2.0.13</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-                <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-                <version>2.23.1</version>
-            </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-                <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
-                <version>2.23.1</version>
+                <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+                <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+                <version>1.5.6</version>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
@@ -237,17 +228,10 @@
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/ch.qos.logback/logback-classic -->
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -370,6 +354,12 @@
                     <generateBackupPoms>false</generateBackupPoms>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-dependency-plugin -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.7.1</version>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 </project>

src/main/resources/logback.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+    # Console appender
+    <!-- appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
+            # Pattern of log message for console appender
+            <Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %m%n</Pattern>
+        </layout>
+    </appender-->
+
+    # Rolling File appender
+    <property name="LOG_FILE" value="ppkt2prompt" />
+    <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
+        <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
+            # Pattern of log message for console appender
+            <Pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %m%n</Pattern>
+        </layout>
+        <file>${LOG_FILE}.log</file>
+        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
+            <!-- daily rollover -->
+            <fileNamePattern>${LOG_FILE}.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.gz</fileNamePattern>
+
+            <!-- keep 30 days' worth of history capped at 1GB total size -->
+            <maxHistory>30</maxHistory>
+            <totalSizeCap>1GB</totalSizeCap>
+        </rollingPolicy>
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>%-4relative [%thread] %-5level %logger{35} - %msg%n</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    # Override log level for specified package
+    <!-- logger name="" level="TRACE"/ -->
+
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <!--appender-ref ref="STDOUT" /-->
+        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
+    </root>
+</configuration>
+