Spring Boot REST Client Logging Made Easy

Spring Boot REST Client Logging Tutorial 🔍 Learn how to implement clean, efficient request/response logging for Spring Boot’s REST Client! In this comprehensive tutorial, we’ll build a reusable solution that gives you exactly the logging information you need, without the overwhelming verbosity of the underlying HTTP client logging. What You’ll Learn • How to create a custom request interceptor for logging • Techniques for handling request/response body streams effectively • Implementation of reusable logging solutions across multiple REST clients • Best practices for clean, informative logging in Spring Boot applications Tutorial Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction & Question Overview 00:00:54 Problem Explanation & Approaches 00:02:51 Project Setup with Spring Boot 00:03:47 Creating the Base Project Structure 00:04:54 Implementing Post Client & Model 00:08:36 Initial Logging Implementation 00:12:28 Creating Todo Package & Classes 00:14:19 Building Custom Request Interceptor 00:16:34 Implementing Response Logging 00:19:01 Buffering HTTP Response Solution 00:21:38 Final Demo & Conclusion Code & Resources 🔗 GitHub Repository: 🔗 Spring Boot Documentation: 🔗 JSON Placeholder (Testing API): Technologies Used • Spring Boot 3.2 • Spring Web • Java 17 • Maven