Better log output

[brendt]

Currently, the log output is just a single line. There might be a better format.

Opinions are welcome.

[sebastiandedeyne]

We've done print_r in the past, there's probably a better solution though.

[brendt]

I like a JSON format, because you could copy/paste it right into a REST client.

Maybe the headers should also be logged?

[brendt]

As it seems, all newlines are stripped when using the Log. This results in difficult to read output.

[brendt]

Turns out Monolog can have different formatters, and you can make your own. Laravel also has its wrapper around this: Illuminate\Log\Writer in which formatter can be configured.

I didn't go as far as making our own formatter, but it seems like a possibility, enabling new lines. I don't think it's worth the time now, but might be a nice feature for the future.

[freekmurze]

I like a JSON format, because you could copy/paste it right into a REST client.

I very much like this idea.

[brendt]

@freekmurze But the question about formatting in the log output itself still stands. What's your opinion? To format the JSON in a pretty way, we'll have to create a custom formatter.

Functionally the unformatted JSON output will of course work just as fine; so pretty format might not be that important.

[pmatseykanets]

It would be nice to separate concerns of

• figuring out what requests to log or not shouldLogRequest()
• and format in which the log is being written logRequest()

This way regardless of logger/formatter requests that shouldn't be logged won't be.

[freekmurze]

That's a pretty good idea, let's do that @brendt .

[sebastiandedeyne]

Confused, isn't that what it looks like now? 🤔

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-http-logger/blob/48f75eeba9cbcc87471f9c880e5a3288d29d504b/src/DefaultLogProfile.php

[brendt]

I share @sebastiandedeyne's confusion, or were you maybe @pmatseykanets was referring to further split it in separate classes?

[freekmurze]

Separating concerns will be handled in #7

Current log output is good enough for a v1.0.0