I have been using the Spring RestTemplate for a while and I consistently hit a wall when I’am trying to debug it’s requests and responses. I’m basically looking to see the same things as I see when I use curl with the “verbose” option turned on. For example :
curl -v http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss
Would display both the sent data and the received data (including the headers, cookies, etc.).
I have checked some related posts like :
How do I log response in Spring RestTemplate?
but I haven’t managed to solve this issue.
One way to do this would be to actually change the RestTemplate source code and add some extra logging statements there, but I would find this approach really a last resort thing. There should be some way to tell Spring Web Client/RestTemplate to log everything in a much friendlier way.
My goal would be to be able to do this with code like :
restTemplate.put("http://someurl", objectToPut, urlPathValues);
and then to get the same type of debug information (as I get with curl) in the log file or in the console.
I believe this would be extremely useful for anyone that uses the Spring RestTemplate and has problems. Using curl to debug your RestTemplate problems just doesn’t work (in some cases).
