cxf Getting started with cxf Client Filters

Example

One good reason to use Filters is for logging. Using this technique a REST call can be logged and timed easily.

public class RestLogger implements ClientRequestFilter, ClientResponseFilter {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RestLogger.class);

    // Used for timing this call.
    private static final ThreadLocal<Long> startTime = new ThreadLocal<Long>();
    private boolean logRequestEntity;
    private boolean logResponseEntity;

    private static Gson GSON = new GsonBuilder().create();

    public RestLogger(boolean logRequestEntity, boolean logResponseEntity) {
        this.logRequestEntity = logRequestEntity;
        this.logResponseEntity = logResponseEntity;
    }


    @Override
    public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException {
        startTime.set(System.currentTimeMillis());
    }

    @Override
    public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext, ClientResponseContext responseContext) throws IOException {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("HTTP:").append(responseContext.getStatus());
        sb.append(" - Time:[").append(System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime.get().longValue()).append("ms]");
        sb.append(" - Path:").append(requestContext.getUri());
        sb.append(" - Content-type:").append(requestContext.getStringHeaders().getFirst(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE.toString()));
        sb.append(" - Accept:").append(requestContext.getStringHeaders().getFirst(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT.toString()));
        if (logRequestEntity) {
            sb.append(" - RequestBody:").append(requestContext.getEntity() != null ? GSON.toJson(requestContext.getEntity()) : "none");
        }
        if (logResponseEntity) {
            sb.append(" - ResponseBody:").append(this.logResponse(responseContext));
        }
        log.info(sb.toString());
    }

    private String logResponse(ClientResponseContext response) {
        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        InputStream in = response.getEntityStream();
        try {
            ReaderWriter.writeTo(in, out);
            byte[] requestEntity = out.toByteArray();
            b.append(new String(requestEntity));
            response.setEntityStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(requestEntity));
        }
        catch (IOException ex) {
            throw new ClientHandlerException(ex);
        }
        return b.toString();
    }
}

Above you can see the request is intercepted before the response is sent and a ThreadLocal Long is set. When the response is returned we can log the request and response and all kinds of pertinent data. Of course this only works for Gson responses and such but can be modified easily. This is set up this way:

List<Object> providers = new ArrayList<Object>();
providers.add(new GsonMessageBodyProvider());
providers.add(new RestLogger(true, true)); <------right here!

WebClient webClient = WebClient.create(PORTAL_URL, providers);

The log provided should look something like this:

7278 [main] INFO  blah.RestLogger - HTTP:200 - Time:[1391ms] - User:unknown - Path:https://blah.com/tmet/moduleDescriptions/desc?languageCode=en&moduleId=142 - Content-type:null - Accept:application/json - RequestBody:none - ResponseBody:{"languageCode":"EN","moduleId":142,"moduleDescription":"ECAP"}