Logging Tastypie requests (access log)

Question

I'm having problems with creating an access logger for my tastypie restfull app. I'd like to log several HTTP headers in requests to server and pass them to logger/handler defined in django Settings file. The idea is to log every HTTP request into a access log file.

I've encountered several logging modules (apps) but they all use database, I want something simpler for a basic access log.

Answer 1

I ended up making my own Middleware class in middleware.py inside application root.

Also I placed 'appname.middleware.RequestLoggerMiddleware', inside Settings.py Middleware section.

Here is the code for my access logging middleware class:

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger('access')

class RequestLoggerMiddleware(object):
    def process_request(self, request):
        ... logging logic here...

        logger.info('logging message'))
        return None

For more info about Middleware components see Django Middleware documentation.

Answer 2

Another possibility is to override of the ModelResource.dispatch() method, in a custom ModelResource object:

class CustomModelResource(ModelResource):
    def dispatch(self, request_type, request, **kwargs):
        """
        Override for systematic logging.
        """
        log_user = request.META['USER']
        log_request_type = request_type
        log_resource_name = kwargs['resource_name']
        log_api_name = kwargs['api_name']
        log_response = {}

        try:
            response = super(CustomModelResource, self).dispatch(request_type, request, **kwargs)
            log_response['response_code'] = response.status_code
        # Also log what could go wrong
        except Exception, e:
            log_response['error_type'] = e.__class__.__name__
            log_response['error_message'] = e.message
            log_response['response_code'] = http.HttpBadRequest.status_code
            raise
        finally:
            # Log all the things
            logger.debug('%s asked for %s on %s through api %s: \n%s' % (
                log_user,
                log_request_type,
                log_resource_name,
                log_api_name,
                log_response,
            ))

        return response

class Meta:
    # Other custom stuff

Answer 3

import logging


logger = logging.getLogger('project.app.view')


def my_view(request):
    entry = '%s %s for %s' % (request.method, request.get_full_path(), request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'])
    logger.info(entry)

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/logging/