Issue 24 - rest-client - New Feature: Request/Response log

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Status:	Accepted
Owner:	subwiz
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium
3.0

Reported by a...@flaxfamily.com, Feb 18, 2008

Sometimes when doing a testing / troubleshooting session, it can be very helpful to see multiple 
requests and their responses. It'd be *very* helpful if there was a Request Log 
window/pane/tab/drawer/whatever which allowed one to browse each request and response from 
the current session.

Once we have that, it'd also be great to have features to save the log, and clear the log.

Comment 1 by subwiz, Mar 03, 2008

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Labels: 3.0

Comment 2 by subwiz, Mar 24, 2008

Steps towards implementing this feature:

1. RequestBean -- implement toString() -- this information will be shown to the user
in the list of request/response.
2. The storage format needs to be defined. My preferred format is MimeMultipart
(http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/javax/mail/internet/MimeMultipart.html).
 Each request-response will be stored separated by a boundary marker.
3. UI implementation.

Status: Accepted
Owner: subwiz

Comment 3 by libing.chen, Mar 27, 2008

subwiz, I think we just need to record the stream. We add a new log tab in request
and response, and display all the content. just like the attachment?

	request_and_reponse_log.png 22.4 KB View Download

Comment 4 by subwiz, Mar 27, 2008

I don't think this as a tab in request and response.

This has to be a separate window--which records each and every request made. This
window should be accessible from Tools>Session. This window will have a JTable
listing all the request/response made till now (from the time of opening Session
window). Each entry in the JTable would be toString() representation of RequestBean.
Clicking on any of the entry will load the corresponding request and response in
RESTClient window. 

Finally this sequence should be savable, so that it can be opened later for
execution. I think this would be more useful as we can see a series of executions one
by one.

This is what I have envisioned. And the only task I was able to finish till date was
the toString() portion :-)

Comment 5 by subwiz, Apr 02, 2008

One of the options for saving the sequence would be to use the MIME format. We could use:

http://james.apache.org/mime4j/

Comment 7 by subwiz, Jul 02, 2008

Me moved to my first employer after series of unsatisfying jobs. Now full of energy,
I have started developing this feature.

Comment 8 by subwiz, Mar 19, 2009

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/logging.html

We can write a log appender which captures all the logs and displays in a window.