New Feature: Request/Response log about rest-client HOT 9 CLOSED

Steps towards implementing this feature:

1. RequestBean -- implement toString() -- this information will be shown to the 
user
in the list of request/response.
2. The storage format needs to be defined. My preferred format is MimeMultipart
(http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/javax/mail/internet/MimeMultipar
t.html).
 Each request-response will be stored separated by a boundary marker.
3. UI implementation.

subwiz, I think we just need to record the stream. We add a new log tab in 
request
and response, and display all the content. just like the attachment?

I don't think this as a tab in request and response.

This has to be a separate window--which records each and every request made. 
This
window should be accessible from Tools>Session. This window will have a JTable
listing all the request/response made till now (from the time of opening Session
window). Each entry in the JTable would be toString() representation of 
RequestBean.
Clicking on any of the entry will load the corresponding request and response in
RESTClient window. 

Finally this sequence should be savable, so that it can be opened later for
execution. I think this would be more useful as we can see a series of 
executions one
by one.

This is what I have envisioned. And the only task I was able to finish till 
date was
the toString() portion :-)

One of the options for saving the sequence would be to use the MIME format. We 
could use:

http://james.apache.org/mime4j/

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Me moved to my first employer after series of unsatisfying jobs. Now full of 
energy,
I have started developing this feature.

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/logging.html

We can write a log appender which captures all the logs and displays in a 
window.