How can I print/log entire body contents of MultiPartEntity that is being used by HTTPRequest?

Question

I want to verify what exactly is in HTTP request i.e Parameters and Headers. The code, which I am debugging uses MultiPartEntity to setEntity before making executing HTTP Request.

response = executePost(multipartEntity);
statusCode = response.statusCode;

I am not getting the expected response from the server hence want to verify what is the exact thing (url + parameters) that is being send to the server.

Thanks.

android has no MultiPartEntity support – sandrstar Nov 07 '12 at 07:23 — sandrstar, Nov 07 '12 at 07:23
Project uses Apache mime4j library. No issues whatsover. – suhas_sm Nov 07 '12 at 07:25 — suhas_sm, Nov 07 '12 at 07:25

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered May 16 '13 at 12:46

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Something like the following will do the trick:

ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
multipartEntity.writeTo(bytes);
String content = bytes.toString();

As suhas_sm mentioned the getContent() method exists but is not implemented.

answered May 16 '13 at 12:46

Mark Doyle

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This was a MUCH more elegant answer than my previous attempts with InputStream, BufferedReader and StringBuilder, and it works for all Entity types. Thanks! – steve-gregory Sep 26 '14 at 23:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '14 at 06:43

I have achieved by this

MultipartEntity reqEntityB = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream out = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream(
                (int) reqEntityB.getContentLength());
        reqEntityB.writeTo(out);
        String entityContentAsString = new String(out.toByteArray());
        Log.e("multipartEntitty:", "" + entityContentAsString);

How can I print/log entire body contents of MultiPartEntity that is being used by HTTPRequest?

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