Java Spring Boot - logging response with payloads

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I'm currently integrating request / response logging into a REST service using Spring Boot. For requests, I chose the CommonsRequestLoggingFilter as provided by Spring:

@Bean
public CommonsRequestLoggingFilter requestLoggingFilter() {
    CommonsRequestLoggingFilter loggingFilter = new CommonsRequestLoggingFilter();
    loggingFilter.setIncludeClientInfo(false);
    loggingFilter.setIncludeQueryString(true);
    loggingFilter.setIncludePayload(true);
    loggingFilter.setMaxPayloadLength(1024);

    return loggingFilter;
}

And in the configuration file:

logging.level.org.springframework.web.filter.CommonsRequestLoggingFilter=DEBUG

For reponses, however, there seems to be no corresponding class? Is there a similar way to log the server response in Spring?

EDIT: Specically, what I see with the above setup is nothing in BeforeRequest:

2017-06-28 09:32:32.258 DEBUG 22872 --- [http-nio-8081-exec-2] o.s.w.f.CommonsRequestLoggingFilter      : Before request [uri=/someApp/someObject]

The request payload as AfterRequest:

2017-06-28 09:32:32.272 DEBUG 22872 --- [http-nio-8081-exec-2] o.s.w.f.CommonsRequestLoggingFilter      : 
After request [uri=/someApp/someResource;payload={
  "someObject":   {
                    "lastName": "Doe",
                    "reference": "123456789"
              }
    }
]

And the actual response is nowhere in the log.

Jan-Eric Pietralla · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-29 11:15:21Z

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Nevermind,

I ended up implementing my own filter that can log responses as well. Based on GenericFilterBean, wrapping HttpResponse and HttpRequest so the streams don't get closed.

It's still strange to me that Spring provides a class for logging requests, but not for responses...

answered Jun 29, 2017 at 11:15

Jan-Eric Pietralla

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Pratik Singhal Over a year ago

It will be quite useful, if you also post the code for the LoggingFilter you implemented.

xlm Over a year ago

@PratikSinghal example using (extending) Filters to log response along with the body: stackoverflow.com/a/3242482/885922

Mike Adamenko · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-02 19:55:54Z

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If you need to monitor and manage your app consider to use actuator. It has ability to log requests\responses out of the box.

edited May 2, 2018 at 19:55

answered Jun 27, 2017 at 9:16

Mike Adamenko

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Jan-Eric Pietralla Over a year ago

I see. Any pointers in getting this activated properly? I currently see the request with payload logged as "AfterRequest" entry, and the response is nowhere to be found.

pnewhook Over a year ago

AbstractRequestLoggingFilter can log the request before and after processing, but does not log the response.

Suraj Rao · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-10 11:15:23Z

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you can try to set the below line in application.properties to log request/response

logging.level.org.springframework.ws.server.MessageTracing.sent=TRACE

edited Apr 10, 2019 at 11:15

Suraj Rao

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answered Apr 10, 2019 at 11:09

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