Logging with Retrofit 2

Question

I\'m trying to get the exact JSON that is being sent in the request. Here is my code:

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Answer 1

I met the thing as you and I tried to ask the author of the book Retrofit: Love working with APIs on Android (here is the link) (nope! I am not making some ads for them....but they are really nice guys :) And the author replied to me very soon, with both Log method on Retrofit 1.9 and Retrofit 2.0-beta.

And here is the code of Retrofit 2.0-beta:

HttpLoggingInterceptor logging = new HttpLoggingInterceptor();  
// set your desired log level
logging.setLevel(Level.BODY);

OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();  
// add your other interceptors …

// add logging as last interceptor
httpClient.interceptors().add(logging);  // <-- this is the important line!

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()  
   .baseUrl(API_BASE_URL)
   .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
   .client(httpClient)
   .build();

This is how to add logging method with the help of HttpLoggingInterceptor. Also if you are the reader of that book I mentioned above, you may find that it says there is not log method with Retrofit 2.0 anymore -- which, I had asked the author, is not correct and they will update the book next year talking about it.

// In case you are not that familiar with the Log method in Retrofit, I would like to share something more.

Also should be noticed that there are some Logging Levels you could pick. I use the Level.BODY most of the time, which will give some thing like this:

You can find almost all the http staff inside the picture: the header, the content and response, etc.

And sometimes you really don't need all the guests to attend your party: I just want to know whether it's successfully connected, that internet call is successfully made within my Activiy & Fragmetn. Then you are free to use Level.BASIC, which will return something like this:

Can you find the status code 200 OK inside? That is it :)

Also there is another one, Level.HEADERS, which will only return the header of the network. Ya of course another picture here:

That's all of the Logging trick ;)

And I would like to share you with the tutorial I learned a lot there. They have a bunch of great post talking about almost everything related to Retrofit, and they are continuing updating the post, at the same time Retrofit 2.0 is coming. Please take a look at those work, which I think will save you lots of time.