Getting an Audit Entry (Log) - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

Getting an audit log uses the getAuditEntry method of the AuditApi.

For more information about this ReST API endpoint, see Get an Audit Entry (Log).

For a description of the common parameters, such as fields, see Common Parameters.

import org.alfresco.core.handler.AuditApi;
import org.alfresco.core.model.AuditEntryEntry;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

@Component
public class GetAuditLogCmd {
    static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GetAuditLogCmd.class);

    @Autowired
    AuditApi auditApi;

    public void execute(String auditAppId, String auditLogId) throws IOException {
        List<String> fields = null;

        AuditEntryEntry auditLog = auditApi.getAuditEntry(auditAppId, auditLogId, fields).getBody();
        LOGGER.info("Got audit log metadata  {}", auditLog);
    }
}

Executing this code will list the audit logs for passed in audit app id. The audit log values have been trimmed:

% java -jar target/rest-api-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar get-audit-log alfresco-access 80                     

2021-05-10 09:49:57.492  INFO 51645 --- [           main] o.a.tutorial.restapi.RestApiApplication  : Started RestApiApplication in 3.49 seconds (JVM running for 3.992)
2021-05-10 09:49:57.494  INFO 51645 --- [           main] o.a.tutorial.restapi.RestApiApplication  : args[0]: get-audit-log
2021-05-10 09:49:57.496  INFO 51645 --- [           main] o.a.tutorial.restapi.RestApiApplication  : args[1]: alfresco-access
2021-05-10 09:49:57.496  INFO 51645 --- [           main] o.a.tutorial.restapi.RestApiApplication  : args[2]: 80
2021-05-10 09:49:57.676  INFO 51645 --- [           main] o.a.tutorial.restapi.GetAuditLogCmd      : Got audit log metadata  class AuditEntryEntry {
    entry: class AuditEntry {
        id: 80
        auditApplicationId: alfresco-access
        createdByUser: class UserInfo {
            displayName: Administrator
            id: admin
        }
        createdAt: 2021-05-10T08:27:12.270Z
        values: {
          /alfresco-access/transaction/sub-actions=updateNodeProperties, 
          /alfresco-access/transaction/properties/from={cm:lastThumbnailModification=[pdf:1620394371183, doclib:1620394374161], {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}modified=2021-05-10T08:27:10.986+0000}, 
          /alfresco-access/transaction/properties/to={cm:lastThumbnailModification=[doclib:1620394374161, pdf:1620635231931], {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}modified=2021-05-10T08:27:11.935+0000}, 
          /alfresco-access/transaction/path=/app:company_home/app:guest_home/cm:somefileudpated.txt, 
          /alfresco-access/transaction/action=updateNodeProperties, 
          /alfresco-access/transaction/type=cm:content, 
          /alfresco-access/transaction/user=admin}
    }
}