ContentCachingResponseWrapper Produces Empty Response

Question

I\'m trying to implement filter for logging requests and responses in Spring MVC application. I use the following code:

@Component
public class          


        

Answer 1

The pattern I like to use is to split this into 2 filters, one for extracting the raw body and another one to do the logging - feels a more SRP.

@Slf4j        // lombok logging
@Component    // spring loads filter into it's filter chain
@Order(1)     // Best if this goes first (or early in filter chain)
public class CachingBodyFilter implements Filter {

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain) {
        ContentCachingRequestWrapper reqWrapper = new ContentCachingRequestWrapper((HttpServletRequest) req);
        ContentCachingResponseWrapper resWrapper = new ContentCachingResponseWrapper((HttpServletResponse) res);
        try {
            chain.doFilter(reqWrapper, resWrapper);
            resWrapper.copyBodyToResponse();  // Necessary (see answer by StasKolodyuk above)
        } catch (IOException | ServletException e) {
            log.error("Error extracting body", e);
        }
    }

}

And then we create another filter to do the logging part.

@Slf4j
@Component
@Order(2)     // This needs to come after `CachingBodyFilter`
public class PayloadLogFilter implements Filter {

    public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        chain.doFilter(req, res);

        if (req instanceof ContentCachingRequestWrapper) {
            ContentCachingRequestWrapper reqWrapper = (ContentCachingRequestWrapper) req;
            String payload = new String (reqWrapper.getContentAsByteArray(), "utf-8");
            log.debug("Request [ {} ] has payload [ {} ]", reqWrapper.getRequestURI(), payload);
        }
    }

}

A nice advantage of splitting these up is that other classes (e.g. a Spring AOP interceptor or a Spring controller) can also access / use the HTTP body.