I’ve wrote a new Grails plugin – httplogger. It logs:
- request information (url, headers, cookies, method, body),
- grails dispatch information (controller, action, parameters),
- response information (elapsed time and body).
It is mostly useful for logging your REST traffic. Full HTTP web pages can be huge to log and generally waste your space. I suggest to map all of your REST controllers with the same path in <span class="class">UrlMappings</span>, e.g. /rest/ and configure this plugin with this path.
Here is some simple output just to give you a taste of it.
17:16:00,331 INFO filters.LogRawRequestInfoFilter - << #1 GET http://localhost:8080/riddle/rest/index?username=admin&search=foo<br />17:16:00,340 INFO filters.LogRawRequestInfoFilter - << #1 headers Cookie: 'JSESSIONID=DF4EA5725AC4A4990281BD96963739B0; splashShown1.6=1', Accept-Language: 'en-US,en;q=0.8,pl;q=0.6', X-MyHeader: 'null'<br />17:16:00,342 INFO filters.LogGrailsUrlsInfoFilter - << #1 dispatched to rest/index with parsed params [username:[admin], search:[foo]].<br />17:16:00,731 INFO filters.LogOutputResponseFilter - >> #1 returned 200, took 405 ms.<br />17:16:00,745 INFO filters.LogOutputResponseFilter - >> #1 responded with '{count:0}'
17:18:55,799 INFO filters.LogRawRequestInfoFilter - << #2 POST http://localhost:8080/riddle/rest/login<br />17:18:55,799 INFO filters.LogRawRequestInfoFilter - << #2 headers Cookie: 'JSESSIONID=DF4EA5725AC4A4990281BD96963739B0; splashShown1.6=1', Accept-Language: 'en-US,en;q=0.8,pl;q=0.6', X-MyHeader: 'null'<br />17:18:55,800 INFO filters.LogRawRequestInfoFilter - << #2 body: 'username=admin&password=password'<br />17:18:55,801 INFO filters.LogOutputResponseFilter - >> #2 returned 404, took 3 ms.<br />17:18:55,802 INFO filters.LogOutputResponseFilter - >> #2 responded with ''
Official plugin information can be found on Grails plugins website here: http://grails.org/plugins/httplogger or you can browse code on github: TouK/grails-httplogger.
