Laravel Request Logger Snippet

Here's a quick snippet to get HTTP request logging setup quickly in Laravel:

 1<?php
 2 
 3namespace App\Http\Middleware;
 4 
 5use Closure;
 6use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
 7 
 8class RequestLogger
 9{
10    /** @var int */
11    private $startTime;
12 
13    /**
14     * Handle an incoming request.
15     *
16     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
17     * @param  \Closure  $next
18     * @return mixed
19     */
20    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
21    {
22        $this->startTime = round(microtime(true) * 1000);
23 
24        return $next($request);
25    }
26 
27    public function terminate($request, $response)
28    {
29        $user = $request->user();
30        $userId = $user ? $user->id : 0;
31 
32        $token = $user && $user->token() ? $user->token()->id : null;
33 
34        $method = strtoupper($request->getMethod());
35 
36        $statusCode = $response->getStatusCode();
37 
38        $uri = $request->getPathInfo();
39 
40        $bodyAsJson = json_encode($request->except(['password', 'password_confirmation']));
41 
42        $contentType = $response->headers->get('Content-Type');
43 
44        $runTime = round(microtime(true) * 1000) - $this->startTime;
45 
46        Log::info("{$statusCode} {$runTime}ms {$method} {$contentType} {$uri} | User: {$userId} | Token: {$token} | {$bodyAsJson}");
47    }
48}

Because both the handle and terminate methods access the $this->startTime variable, we need to make sure we receive the same instance of the middleware in both methods. To do this, you need to register the middleware as a singleton in the boot method of your AppServiceProvider:

1<?php
2 
3public function boot()
4{
5    $this->app->singleton(\App\Http\Middleware\RequestLogger::class);
6}

Don't forget to add the middleware to the $middleware array in App\Http\Kernel.php!

Credit to https://github.com/spatie/laravel-http-logger for some of the lines.

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