Rest client logging for AndroidAnnotations

Question

I am attempting to use AndroidAnnotation's rest client to access a web service. I am receiving the following error:

org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException:
Could not read JSON: Unexpected character ('f' (code 102)):
    was expecting double-quote to start field name

How can I make the rest client log the actual response it received? I can't imagine why my web service is returning this response, but I can't debug it unless I can see the full response. Do I have to set some kind of option at the level of the Spring framework?

I would also like to see the body of the request I am sending.

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Here we see that AndroidAnnotations is a wrapper around the Spring Android RestTemplate Module. The code for the RestTemplate is here. So we can find out which TAG is used for logging:

private static final String TAG = "RestTemplate";

Are you not able to see log entries for this TAG? Which converter / extractor are you using? Please post the call stack.

In the wiki they recommend to use a Interceptor for logging request / response. So you could implement your own interceptor like:

public class LoggingInterceptor implements ClientHttpRequestInterceptor {
    @Override
    public ClientHttpResponse intercept(HttpRequest request, byte[] data, ClientHttpRequestExecution execution) throws IOException {
        logRequest(request);
        ClientHttpResponse response = execution.execute(request, data);
        logResponse(response);
        return response;
    }

    private void logRequest(HttpRequest request) {
        // log it
    }

    private void logResponse(ClientHttpResponse response) {
        // log it
    }
}

You enable the interceptor in the @Rest annotation (field interceptors).