Added logging mechanism for user actions.

src/main/java/net/gepafin/tendermanagement/util/Utils.java

@@ -5,20 +5,19 @@ import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.Type;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.security.SecureRandom;
-import java.text.DecimalFormat;
 import java.text.NumberFormat;
 import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
-import java.time.LocalDate;
-import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
-import java.time.format.DateTimeParseException;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-import com.itextpdf.styledxmlparser.jsoup.Jsoup;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
 import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import net.gepafin.tendermanagement.constants.GepafinConstant;
 import org.apache.commons.collections4.MapUtils;
@@ -515,4 +514,36 @@ public class Utils {
 		}
 		return null;
 	}
+
+	public static String convertEntityToJsonForLogging(Object entity) {
+
+		if(entity == null){
+			return null;
+		}
+		try {
+			return mapper.writeValueAsString(entity);
+		} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			return null;
+		}
+	}
+
+	@JsonIgnoreProperties({ "childEntities", "relatedData", "otherRelations" })
+	private abstract static class IgnoreChildEntities {
+	}
+
+	public static <T> T getClonedEntityForData(T entity) {
+
+		if (entity == null) {
+			return null;
+		}
+		try {
+			String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(entity);
+			@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") T clonedEntity = (T) mapper.readValue(json, entity.getClass());
+			return clonedEntity;
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			throw new RuntimeException("Failed to clone entity", e);
+		}
+	}
 }