Hi guys, I was wondering if there is a way to achi...

# ktor

[legzo]

Hi guys,
I was wondering if there is a way to achieve the following : I have an HTTPClient that calls back-end REST services and tries to read the response as a particular type T. I have installed the ClientLogging feature and everything works as expected, unless the server returns an error, for example an authorization issue, the response cannot be read as T and and exception is thrown, leaving me with no logs. It's a bit hard to debug... As I understand, ClientLogging intercepts at HttpReceivePipeline.Before with a ResponseObserver and I don't really understand why my back-ends' logs aren't showing up.
Anyone has a clue ?

[e5l]

Hi @legzo, the exception logging is fixed and would be available in the next release.

[legzo]

Ah ! I thought I missed something ! Is it in the CallLogging feature (and maybe I can cherrypick it ?) or is it in ktor's core ?

[e5l]

https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/blob/master/ktor-client/ktor-client-features/ktor-client-logging/common/src/io/ktor/client/features/logging/Logging.kt

[legzo]

So this commit I guess ? https://github.com/ktorio/ktor/commit/c73abbc56ec473eed144affa7f8f6bd7fcabfa6d#diff-afbecd7b76aba215fe562377c3148f02
Thanks a lot !

[legzo]

In fact I don't know if I was clear : what I miss is the possibility to see the response raw body in the logs. And I think the commit you pointed out only adds a log stating that something failed right ?

[legzo]

And do you have a suggestion to how I could implement logging the response body ?

[legzo]

What I don't get is that HttpReceivePipeline.Before is the earliest phase but I don't see the logs even though my code is the following :

val response = client.request<HttpResponse> { ... }

// here I don't see any log

when (response.status) {
     OK -> result = response.receive<T>()  // here the exception is thrown