Logging requests to django-rest-framework

Question

For debugging purposes, I would like to use Django\'s logging mechanism to log each and every incoming request when it \"arrives\" at django-rest-framework\'s doorstep.

Answer 1

Override the APIView.initial() method to add logging yourself.

Dispatch methods

The following methods are called directly by the view's .dispatch() method. These perform any actions that need to occur before or after calling the handler methods such as .get(), .post(), put(), patch() and .delete().

.initial(self, request, *args, **kwargs)
Performs any actions that need to occur before the handler method gets called. This method is used to enforce permissions and throttling, and perform content negotiation.