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I have a RESTFul service that I expose over http. It expects a Json input for a POST request. Please guide me to how to extract the Json input from the HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse objects. The issue is complicated as I am using spring's HandlerInterceptorAdapter and I do not have access to the input parameters and the output from there.

My interceptor code is below:

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerInterceptorAdapter;

public class MyInterceptor extends HandlerInterceptorAdapter {

  static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RequestResponseInterceptor.class);

  //before the actual handler will be executed
  public boolean preHandle(HttpServletRequest request,
                           HttpServletResponse response, Object handler)
      throws Exception {

    logRequestPayload(request);

    return true;
  }

  private void logRequestPayload(HttpServletRequest request) {
    JSONObject requestObj = new JSONObject(request.getParameterMap());
    logger.debug("request:" + requestObj);
  }

  //after the handler is executed
  public void postHandle(
      HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
      Object handler, ModelAndView modelAndView)
      throws Exception {

    logResponsePayload(response);

  }

  private void logResponsePayload(HttpServletResponse response) {
    JSONObject responseObj = extractJsonFromResponse(response);
    logger.debug("response:" + response);
  }

  private JSONObject extractJsonFromResponse(HttpServletResponse response) {
    return new JSONObject();
  }
}

Thanks

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    You probably want to use a HandlerMethodArgumentResolver, a good example can be found @here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12893566/passing-multiple-variables-in-requestbody-to-a-spring-mvc-controller-using-ajax – Devin Jul 09 '20 at 18:43

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