I am trying to write a small API logger as an Express middleware. The logger collects various pieces of information from the req and res, then saves a JSON file to disk that can be read later.
This is my current function to store the logs.
function store(req, res, next) {
init();
const log = {
request_url: req.hostname,
request_body: req.body,
request_method: req.method,
request_headers: req.headers,
api_endpoint: req.baseUrl,
timestamp: moment().format('x')
};
res.on('finish', () => {
log.response_body = res.body;
log.response_status = res.statusCode;
global.enoch_logs.push(log);
fs.writeFile(`./logs/${ moment().format('x') }.json`, JSON.stringify(log), (err) => (err) ? console.log(err) : null);
});
next();
}
The problem is that res.body is always empty. I have tried a few different methods to capture the response body but nothing seems to work.
Where am I going wrong?