Logging requests to django-rest-framework

Question

For debugging purposes, I would like to use Django's logging mechanism to log each and every incoming request when it "arrives" at django-rest-framework's doorstep.

Djagno offers logging of its requests (only "warning" log level and above) in the following manner (from LOGGING section in settings.py):

'django.request': {         'handlers': ['mail_admins'],         'level': 'ERROR',         'propagate': False,  }, 

I'm looking to achieve something like this (notice: log level is DEBUG):

'rest_framework.request': {         'handlers': ['logfile'],         'level': 'DEBUG',         'propagate': False,  }, 

Is there a way I can do that without embedding a logger in to DRF's source code?
Is there maybe some sort of "Logging Backend" option in DRF I'm not aware of?

Answer 1

I made a generic RequestLogMiddleware that can be hooked into any Django View using decorator_from_middleware.

request_log/middleware.py

import socket import time   class RequestLogMiddleware(object):     def process_request(self, request):         request.start_time = time.time()      def process_response(self, request, response):          if response['content-type'] == 'application/json':             if getattr(response, 'streaming', False):                 response_body = '<<<Streaming>>>'             else:                 response_body = response.content         else:             response_body = '<<<Not JSON>>>'          log_data = {             'user': request.user.pk,              'remote_address': request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'],             'server_hostname': socket.gethostname(),              'request_method': request.method,             'request_path': request.get_full_path(),             'request_body': request.body,              'response_status': response.status_code,             'response_body': response_body,              'run_time': time.time() - request.start_time,         }          # save log_data in some way          return response 

request_log/mixins.py

from django.utils.decorators import decorator_from_middleware  from .middleware import RequestLogMiddleware   class RequestLogViewMixin(object):     """     Adds RequestLogMiddleware to any Django View by overriding as_view.     """      @classmethod     def as_view(cls, *args, **kwargs):         view = super(RequestLogViewMixin, cls).as_view(*args, **kwargs)         view = decorator_from_middleware(RequestLogMiddleware)(view)         return view 

my_django_rest_api/views.py

from rest_framework import generics  from ...request_log.mixins import RequestLogViewMixin  class SomeListView(     RequestLogViewMixin,     generics.ListAPIView ):     ...