Dump Request & Response in aah

aah provides easy to use dump/log HTTP request and response into log file, just enable it.

Its not just a dump, Log is readable and very helpful for your Debugging. You can control dump log by headers, request body, response body, etc.

Note:

  • It is not recommended to enable 'Request and Response dump' in production profile. It may be impact your application performance.
  • Keep an eye on disk usage when you enable aah server dump.
  • Dump log is not applicable for Static files delivery and non-readable content types.

Server Dump Log Configuration

Add dump_log section under the config server section in the aah.conf.

server {
  # ...
  # -------------------------------------------------------
  # Dump Request & Response Details
  # Such as URL, Proto, Headers, Body, etc.
  # Note: Dump is not applicable for Static Files delivery.
  # Doc: https://docs.aahframework.org/server-dump-log.html
  # -------------------------------------------------------
  dump_log {
    # Default value is `false`.
    enable = true

    # Absolute path to dump log file or relative path.
    # Default location is application logs directory
    #file = "{{ .AppName }}-dump.log"

    # Log Request body into dump log. aah dumps body for JSON, XML, Form
    # HTML and Plain Text content types.
    # Default value is `false`.
    #request_body = true

    # Log Request body into dump log. aah dumps body for JSON, XML, Form
    # HTML, and Plain Text content types.
    # Default value is `false`.
    #response_body = true
  }
  # ...  
}
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Sample Dump of REST API tutorial app

This is just a sample dump log from REST API tutorial.

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URI: http://localhost:8080/v1/posts
METHOD: POST
PROTO: HTTP/1.1
HEADERS:
    Accept: */*
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Content-Length: 81
    Content-Type: application/json
    Postman-Token: aa278c41-2946-4cab-b4d5-746424a56b75
    User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/6.3.2
    X-Forwarded-For: ::1
    X-Request-Id: 59c56cf09bf234552e9218f4
BODY:
{
    "title": "Hey, my first post",
    "body": "\u003cp\u003eThis is my first blog post\u003c/p\u003e"
}

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

STATUS: 201 Created
BYTES WRITTEN: 15
HEADERS:
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Server: aah-go-server
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: DENY
    X-Request-Id: 59c56cf09bf234552e9218f4
BODY:
{
    "id": 2
}

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URI: http://localhost:8080/v1/posts
METHOD: GET
PROTO: HTTP/1.1
HEADERS:
    Accept: */*
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Content-Type: application/json
    Postman-Token: a56e8af3-19e8-47db-b0c3-9baa68dbe92b
    User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/6.3.2
    X-Forwarded-For: ::1
    X-Request-Id: 59c56cf19bf234552e9218f5

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

STATUS: 200 OK
BYTES WRITTEN: 565
HEADERS:
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Server: aah-go-server
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    X-Frame-Options: DENY
    X-Request-Id: 59c56cf19bf234552e9218f5
BODY:
{
    "posts": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "title": "Hey, my first post",
            "body": "\u003cp\u003eThis is my first blog post\u003c/p\u003e",
            "created_at": "2017-09-22T13:05:01-07:00",
            "updated_at": "2017-09-22T13:05:01-07:00"
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "title": "Hey, my first post",
            "body": "\u003cp\u003eThis is my first blog post\u003c/p\u003e",
            "created_at": "2017-09-22T13:05:04-07:00",
            "updated_at": "2017-09-22T13:05:04-07:00"
        }
    ]
}

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