Auditlog: How to log paramters > 2000 characters? #1613

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  liangshiwei created 2 years ago

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  Hi,

  You can custom the AuditLog entity.

  Try:

  
  public class MigrationDbContext
  {
      ......
  
      protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
      {
          .......
  
          builder.Entity<AuditLog>(b =>
          {
              b.Property(x => x.Comments).HasMaxLength(int.MaxValue);
          });
      }
  }
  

  And add & apply migration.

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  BassaSolutions created 2 years ago

  Ok, I formulated it badly.

  I mean the property AbpAuditLogActions.Parameters, where the HTTP POST Body is logged.

  It has a max length of 2000 characters. When the JSON is longer than 2000, it will log nothing at all. I would like to have it cut off instead, same as AbpAuditLogs.Comments.

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  liangshiwei created 2 years ago

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  Hi,

  Got it, I think you can create an audit Log Contributors : https://docs.abp.io/en/abp/latest/Audit-Logging#audit-log-contributors

  public class MyAuditLogContributor : AuditLogContributor
  {
      public override void PostContribute(AuditLogContributionContext context)
      {
          foreach (var action in context.AuditInfo.Actions)
          {
              if (action.Parameters.Length > 2000)
              {
                  action.Parameters = action.Parameters.Substring(0, 1999);
              }
          }
      }
  }
  

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  BassaSolutions created 2 years ago

  This works half way, the data is inserted into the DB. But now the Frontend crashes (Blazor), because the Page (AuditLogs -> Action -> Details) seems to expect a valid JSON:

  
   ---> System.Text.Json.JsonReaderException: Expected end of string, but instead reached end of data. LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 1999.
  

  I guess this was the reason why it was just not inserted into the DB. For auditing it would be really useful to still get the information, wo can this be fixed?

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  BassaSolutions created 2 years ago

  Ok, I tried fixing it by writing the data to antoher field (e.g. increasing comments size and writing it there, or in ExtraProperties).

  None of it works, because the UI does not display it. (e.g. comments only shows first 200 characters, Extraproperties seems to not be able to hande json).

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  liangshiwei created 2 years ago

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  Hi,

  But now the Frontend crashes (Blazor), because the Page (AuditLogs -> Action -> Details) seems to expect a valid JSON:

  Can you provide steps to reproduce? thanks.

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  BassaSolutions created 2 years ago

  Steps to reproduce:

  • Use Blazor Server
  • Write an invalid JSON into AuditLogActions.Details. (e.g.Cut off valid json at 2000 characters). Can also be directy edited in the database.
  • Open Audilogs->Actions->Details

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  liangshiwei created 2 years ago

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  Hi,

  I have checked the source code, and yes, this is by design. you can not truncate the Parameters.

  You can use the change Parameters max length for the solution:

  public class MigrationDbContext
  {
      ......
  
      protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
      {
          .......
  
          builder.Entity<AuditLogAction>(b =>
          {
              b.Property(x => x.Parameters).HasMaxLength(int.MaxValue);
          });
      }
  }
  

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  BassaSolutions created 2 years ago

  The parameters also often contains large base64 images, so a maxlength parameter field would seriously impact our database performance. It would be great when at least 1 field of the audit/auditaction table works for this. Eg. comments ui gets scrollable when length > 200.

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  liangshiwei created 2 years ago

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  Hi,

  I find a way to show the UI, it can work with https://support.abp.io/QA/Questions/1613#answer-4bbf3269-2b57-ae99-3c1d-39fde434f0fb

  [Dependency(ReplaceServices = true)]
  [ExposeServices(typeof(AuditLogsAppService), typeof(IAuditLogsAppService))]
  public class MyAuditLogsAppService : AuditLogsAppService
  {
      public MyAuditLogsAppService(IAuditLogRepository auditLogRepository, IJsonSerializer jsonSerializer, IPermissionChecker permissionChecker, IPermissionDefinitionManager permissionDefinitionManager) : base(auditLogRepository, jsonSerializer, permissionChecker, permissionDefinitionManager)
      {
      }
  
      public override async Task<AuditLogDto> GetAsync(Guid id)
      {
          var log = await AuditLogRepository.GetAsync(id);
          return ObjectMapper.Map<AuditLog, AuditLogDto>(log);
      }
  }
  

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  BassaSolutions created 2 years ago

  Great, that works!

  I updated your solution to include the original part where it formats the JSON, only incase of an invalid json I just display the string.

  Thank you!

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