rest - How to get plain XML from javax.ws.rs Entity on client side -

i have rest client creates xml entity via entity.entity(myobject, mediatype.application_xml_type). after that, call webtarget.request().buildpost(...

how can request body xml client send server? (i need debugging reasons.) here entity object.

of course serialize myself marshaller same xml client send?

you have clientrequestfilter following, simplified version of jersey's loggingfilter:

import java.io.bytearrayoutputstream; import java.io.filteroutputstream; import java.io.ioexception; import java.io.outputstream; import java.nio.charset.charset; import java.nio.charset.standardcharsets; import java.util.logging.logger;  import javax.annotation.priority; import javax.ws.rs.constrainedto; import javax.ws.rs.runtimetype; import javax.ws.rs.webapplicationexception; import javax.ws.rs.client.clientrequestcontext; import javax.ws.rs.client.clientrequestfilter; import javax.ws.rs.container.prematching; import javax.ws.rs.ext.writerinterceptor; import javax.ws.rs.ext.writerinterceptorcontext;  @priority(integer.min_value) @constrainedto(runtimetype.client) public class loggingfilter implements clientrequestfilter, writerinterceptor {      private static final logger logger =                                      logger.getlogger(loggingfilter.class.getname());      private static final string entity_stream_property =                                      loggingfilter.class.getname() + ".entitylogger";      private static final charset default_charset = standardcharsets.utf_8;      private static final int max_entity_size = 1024 * 8;      private void log(stringbuilder sb) {         logger.info(sb.tostring());     }      @override     public void filter(clientrequestcontext context) throws ioexception {          if (context.hasentity()) {             outputstream stream = new loggingstream(context.getentitystream());             context.setentitystream(stream);             context.setproperty(entity_stream_property, stream);         }     }      @override     public void aroundwriteto(writerinterceptorcontext context)                  throws ioexception, webapplicationexception {          loggingstream stream = (loggingstream)                                     context.getproperty(entity_stream_property);         context.proceed();         if (stream != null) {             log(stream.getstringbuilder(default_charset));         }     }      private class loggingstream extends filteroutputstream {          private final stringbuilder b = new stringbuilder();         private final bytearrayoutputstream baos = new bytearrayoutputstream();          loggingstream(final outputstream inner) {             super(inner);         }          stringbuilder getstringbuilder(final charset charset) {             // write entity builder             final byte[] entity = baos.tobytearray();              b.append(new string(entity, 0,                                  math.min(entity.length, max_entity_size), charset));             if (entity.length > max_entity_size) {                 b.append("...more...");             }             b.append('\n');              return b;         }          @override         public void write(final int i) throws ioexception {             if (baos.size() <= max_entity_size) {                 baos.write(i);             }             out.write(i);         }     } } 

and register client:

client client = clientbuilder.newclient().register(loggingfilter.class);