Laravel catch Server-to-server requests

[joelharkes]

Laravel introduced events to catch server-to-server calls made in the framework: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/http-client#events

protected $listen = [
    'Illuminate\Http\Client\Events\RequestSending' => [
        'App\Listeners\LogRequestSending',
    ],
    'Illuminate\Http\Client\Events\ResponseReceived' => [
        'App\Listeners\LogResponseReceived',
    ],
    'Illuminate\Http\Client\Events\ConnectionFailed' => [
        'App\Listeners\LogConnectionFailed',
    ],
];

These can be used to catch server-to-server calls and show them in the logging or in a separate tab:

for example i did some simple HTTP request logging:

  Event::listen(function (RequestSending $requestSending) {
            $headersText = collect($requestSending->request->headers())
                ->map(fn($values, $key) => $key . ": ". (is_array($values) ? implode(", ", $values) : $values) )
                ->join("\r\n");
            clock("{$requestSending->request->method()} {$requestSending->request->url()}\r\n{$headersText}\r\n\r\n{$requestSending->request->body()}");
        });

Can this be added to the default framework integration?

[FeBe95]

Background:

Some additional info on this from my side: I first read your article on dev.to @joelharkes while researching this exact feature. Later, I found this open issue and noticed that you are the author of both the article and this issue. 😅 The HTTP events are available at least since Laravel 8.x (https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/http-client#events)!

Code modifications:

Next I implemented your suggested code and modified it a bit in order to show the HTTP requests in the timeline. I stripped the header & body info from my code as I didn't need them for my specific use case. I kept the logging feature since the links in the timeline are not clickable.

Further I changed the event registration to be inside the global EventServiceProvider.php file. FYI: I didn't need to add the ClockworkMiddleware::class into the Kernel.php as it works just fine without it in my case.

You can find my modified implementation in this gist: https://gist.github.com/FeBe95/e6fcfd704799b0c17a02bce6ecd451ec

Clockwork modifications:

Apart from that I also modified Clockworks' code by adding one extra line here:

https://github.com/itsgoingd/clockwork/blob/954d18ef6b0fa01190769341e09e981303a7c17c/Clockwork/Request/Timeline/Event.php#L94-L98

To turn it into this:

public function toArray()
{
	return [
		'name'        => $this->name,
		'description' => $this->description,
		'start'       => $this->start,

With this change I am able to achieve a behavior similar to how SQL queries are displayed: I can set a short method + host/path string in the name field to display in the timeline bar and the full url string in the description field to display in the popup:

Additional thoughts:

I'd love to see a default framework integration! Maybe a new "HTTP" tab could be introduced, just like the "Log" and "Database" tab. A new color + icon combination in the timeline for the requests would also be a nice addition.

I am very much looking forward to seeing this feature getting integrated into clockwork directly!

[itsgoingd]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I will leave this for the next major release, since I want to do a more complete integration, with a new tab for the HTTP requests as suggested above.