Spring Boot get the request body while using @RequestBody-CodePudding

I'm using Spring Boot @RequestBody annotation to access the request body properties like below

@PostMapping
ResponseEntity<UserDto> createUser (@RequestBody UserDto userDto) {
    // some coode
    return null;
}

What I want to do is instead of just accessing the userDto properties. I want to log the whole request body because someone else is using sending the request and it doesn't match my userDto

What I tried?

@PostMapping
ResponseEntity<UserDto> createUser (HttpServletRequest request) {
    logger.info("Body: {}", request.getReader().lines().collect(Collectors.toSet()));
    return null;
}

This works just fine but each time I want to log the request body I have to switch between @RequestBody UserDto and HttpServletRequest request

Is there anyway I can keep that jackson @RequestBody annonation and still log request body as it is?

CodePudding user response：

Information taken from https://www.baeldung.com/spring-http-logging

You can use Springs CommonsRequestLoggingFilter for this. You can activate this via a Configuration Bean:

@Configuration
public class RequestLoggingFilterConfig {

    @Bean
    public CommonsRequestLoggingFilter logFilter() {
        CommonsRequestLoggingFilter filter           = new CommonsRequestLoggingFilter();
        filter.setIncludeQueryString(true);
        filter.setIncludePayload(true);
        filter.setMaxPayloadLength(10000);
        filter.setIncludeHeaders(false);
        filter.setAfterMessagePrefix("REQUEST DATA : ");
        return filter;
    }
}

The filter logs on debug, so you need to enable debug logging for the class. For example add this in your logback.xml:

<logger name="org.springframework.web.filter.CommonsRequestLoggingFilter">
    <level value="DEBUG" />
</logger>

For reference see https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/filter/CommonsRequestLoggingFilter.html

CodePudding user response：

You can use ObjectMapper from fasterxml

add the following dependencies to the pom.xml:

<dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.13.3</version>
 </dependency>

Change your createUser method to this:

@PostMapping
ResponseEntity<UserDto> createUser (@RequestBody UserDto userDto)
throws JsonProcessingException {
    ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    logger.info("Body: "   objectMapper.writeValueAsString(userDto));
    return null;
}

Result will be like this in your console:

: Body: {"name":"John","username":"Doe"}

CodePudding user response：

One way to solve this task is to write an Http Filter that logs the message before the Handler method is called.

This Baeldung Article demonstrates a filter that logs.