switch from pringln to using logging functions, enable file logging, turn on fancy colour as the auto-detect doesn't seem to work in my terminal (but the colour does) - wonder if I can fix the auto-detected rather than force the colour?

Java/Spring/activitypubbot/src/main/java/dev/activitypub/activitypubbot/BotController.java

@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.ui.Model;
 import java.util.List;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 
 @Controller
+@Slf4j
 public class BotController {
 
     @Autowired
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@ public class BotController {
 
     @GetMapping("/viewbot")
     public String listAll(Model model) {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::viewbot");
+        log.info("WebHandler::viewbot");
 
         List<Bot> botlist = botRepo.findAll();
         model.addAttribute("bots", botlist);
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ public class BotController {
 
     @GetMapping("/makebot")
     public String makebotget(Model model) {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::makebot");
+        log.info("WebHandler::makebot");
 
         Bot bot = new Bot();
         model.addAttribute("bot", bot);
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ public class BotController {
 
     @PostMapping("/makebot")
     public String makebotpost(@ModelAttribute("bot") Bot bot) {
-        System.out.println(bot);
+        //log.info(bot);
 
         botRepo.save(bot);
 

Java/Spring/activitypubbot/src/main/java/dev/activitypub/activitypubbot/WebHandler.java

@@ -3,11 +3,15 @@ package dev.activitypub.activitypubbot;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
 
 /**
  * Here we handle all non-JSON/REST requests - i.e. the normal "web" view
  */
 @Controller
+@Slf4j
 public class WebHandler {
     
     @Autowired
@@ -19,12 +23,12 @@ public class WebHandler {
       */	
     @RequestMapping("/@springbot")
     public String atactor() {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::atactor");
+        log.info("WebHandler::atactor");
         return this.actor();
     }
     @RequestMapping("/users/springbot")
     public String actor() {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::actor");
+        log.info("WebHandler::actor");
         return "index"; // just flinging out the index page for now
     }
 
@@ -33,19 +37,19 @@ public class WebHandler {
      */
     @RequestMapping("/")
     public String root() {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::root");
+        log.info("WebHandler::root");
         return "index";
     }
 /*
     // TODO: presumably there is some way to map things like /<string> to capture string and attempt to resolve template
     @RequestMapping("/viewbot")
     public String viewbot() {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::viewbot");
+        log.info("WebHandler::viewbot");
         return "viewbot";
     }
     @RequestMapping("/makebot")
     public String makebot() {
-        System.out.println("WebHandler::makebot");
+        log.info("WebHandler::makebot");
         return "makebot";
     }
 */

Java/Spring/activitypubbot/src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ spring.application.name=activitypubbot
 springbot.domain=springbot.seth.id.au
 springbot.scheme=https
 
+logging.file.name=logs/springbot.log
+logging.file.path=logs
+spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS
+
 spring.mvc.view.prefix: /WEB-INF/views/
 spring.mvc.view.suffix: .jsp