ContentCachingResponseWrapper Produces Empty Response

Question

I'm trying to implement filter for logging requests and responses in Spring MVC application. I use the following code:

@Component
public class LoggingFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggingFilter.class);

    @Override
    protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) throws ServletException, IOException {

        ContentCachingRequestWrapper requestWrapper = new ContentCachingRequestWrapper(request);
        ContentCachingResponseWrapper responseWrapper = new ContentCachingResponseWrapper(response);

        LOGGER.debug(REQUEST_MESSAGE_FORMAT, requestWrapper.getRequestURI(), requestWrapper.getMethod(), requestWrapper.getContentType(),
                new ServletServerHttpRequest(requestWrapper).getHeaders(), IOUtils.toString(requestWrapper.getInputStream(), UTF_8));

        filterChain.doFilter(requestWrapper, responseWrapper);

        LOGGER.debug(RESPONSE_MESSAGE_FORMAT, responseWrapper.getStatus(), responseWrapper.getContentType(),
                new ServletServerHttpResponse(responseWrapper).getHeaders(), IOUtils.toString(responseWrapper.getContentInputStream(), UTF_8));
    }
}

So, I get my request and respone logged as expected. Here are the logs:

2016-10-08 19:10:11.212 DEBUG 11072 --- [qtp108982313-19] by.kolodyuk.logging.LoggingFilter
----------------------------
ID: 1
URI: /resources/1
Http-Method: GET
Content-Type: null
Headers: {User-Agent=[curl/7.41.0], Accept=[*/*], Host=[localhost:9015]}
Body: 
--------------------------------------
2016-10-08 19:10:11.277 DEBUG 11072 --- [qtp108982313-19] by.kolodyuk.logging.LoggingFilter
----------------------------
ID: 1
Response-Code: 200
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Headers: {}
Body: {"id":"1"}
--------------------------------------

However, the empty response is returned. Here's the output from curl:

$ curl http://localhost:9015/resources/1 --verbose
*   Trying ::1...
* Connected to localhost (::1) port 9015 (#0)
> GET /resources/1 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.41.0
> Host: localhost:9015
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 17:10:11 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
< Content-Length: 0
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

After couple of hours of struggling, I've finally found the solution.

In short, ContentCachingResponseWrapper.copyBodyToResponse() should be called in the end of the filter method.

ContentCachingResponseWrapper caches the response body by reading it from response output stream. So, the stream becomes empty. To write response back to the output stream ContentCachingResponseWrapper.copyBodyToResponse() should be used.