log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger in a Java project

Question

I have created a java project and added log4j library, and log4j.xml in source folder.I have intialized it properly but i am getting error as log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.restassured.tests.tokenAuthorization). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. code

    package com.restassured.tests;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import com.restassured.restcalls.RestCalls;
import com.restassured.utils.PayloadConverterToString;
import com.restassured.utils.URL;

import io.restassured.response.Response;

public class tokenAuthorization {

    private static org.apache.log4j.Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(tokenAuthorization.class.getName());

    Response response;

    @Test
    public void getToken() throws IOException {

        log.info("Invoking request of getToken");

        String uri = URL.getResource("/oauth2/token");
        String payload = PayloadConverterToString.generatePayloadString("TokenPayload.txt");
        response = RestCalls.callPost(uri, payload);
        String strResponse = response.getBody().asString();

        log.info("response =" + strResponse);


    }

}

response

    [TestNG] Running:
  C:\Users\mp00467722\AppData\Local\Temp\testng-eclipse--2081056548\testng-customsuite.xml

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.restassured.tests.tokenAuthorization).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
PASSED: getToken

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    Default test
    Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
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Default suite
Total tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
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Answer 1

It seems like either your log4j.xml is not proper or it's not placed at right location. Try adding it in src/test/resources directory as well.