How To Log Outgoing HTTP Requests with Spring Rest Client and Spring Boot 3

When communicating with external APIs, we often use a RestTemplate, WebClient, or RestClient. All of these can be instrumented to log the requests they are sending so we can look into them and ensure they look how we expect them to.

This tutorial shows how to write a custom interceptor to inspect HTTP requests performed with the new RestClient.

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[blindbyte]

I guess this doesn't work properly.
If you consume the body input stream within the response logging method,
it will fail if trying to consume the body later on. At least I couldn't figure out how to reset the input stream to the beginning.
In your example, you use bodiless() on the client so no body consuming in the app.

[TutorialStation]

How is the IDE working? I mean you get recommendation for code. Is this a plugin?

[seyhaphan]

Is rest client for api integration production ready spring boot?