How to download GAE logs using maven plugin?

Question

I am using the maven gae plugin for my build and deploy of google appengine app (under windows). All works as expected.

However - I notice its also possible to download the GAE with the same pluggin. It looks to me like something like:

mvn -DoutputFile=./test.log gae:logs

should work - however it just gets stuck at:

0% Beginning to retrieve log records...

and goes no further - what am I doing wrong?

Using

mvn -e

or

mvn -X

don't seem to provide any helpful output

Answer 1

I tried an absolute path as well on OSX and it refuses to honor the -DoutputFile argument and puts the logs in target/gae.log no matter where I try and tell it to put it or name it instead.

So go look in your project_dir/target/gae.log file