Rest Template -how to retrieve raw POST request String before it's being sent

Question

For debugging purposes , I need to retrieve the raw POST request of an

restTemplate.postForObject

method , is there any way to obtain it before it get send?

Answer 1

If you are using Apache HttpComponents as the underlying HTTP client library for RestTemplate, you could simply add the following to your application.properties file and you are good to go:

logging.level.org.apache.http=DEBUG