[Feature] Allow accessing request body and headers when performing http request

[Sakshamrameshhudiya]

I am trying invoking an API via playwright and I am setting extraheaders via playwright = Playwright.create();
return playwright.request().newContext(new APIRequest.NewContextOptions()
.setBaseURL(TeamCityEnvironmentVariable("APIBaseUrl"))
.setExtraHTTPHeaders(headers));

and also adding request body to it via pojo classes but I am not able to see what headers and request body is set onces response is given by API.

[mxschmitt]

what is pojo?

I'm not completely following this request, could you give us an example what you are trying to do?

You want to see which extraHttpHeaders are set on a request context?

[Sakshamrameshhudiya]

Hey Team, I actually want to debug what exact request body I am setting in json format in APIRequestContext

[mxschmitt]

what do you mean with json format? Could you provide a code example?

[Sakshamrameshhudiya]

by json format i mean i want to know what request is set in request context ? example :
{
"teamIds": "99790",
"effectiveDate": "2020-01-01"
}

[mxschmitt]

Fair enough, so we can make a feature request out of it and call it "Access request object when performing http requests". This would allow you to access headers, body, etc.

[Sakshamrameshhudiya]

can you please give me and code example in java so as to how fetch these details or if there is some link to refer or something in playwright docuement.

[mxschmitt]

It's not possible yet.

[Sakshamrameshhudiya]

Are we thinking of implementing this? I feel this should be a must for debugging if the request body or any other parameter is incorrectly set. If possible, can we also add a logging or trace feature to hit specific requestcontext API. If these features are added this would make it really powerful and a competitor to rest assured.
Thanks

[mxschmitt]

Usually you already know which request body you pass into, so you kinda have it. Mostly you care about the response instead, not saying its a bad feature to have, depending on the upvotes we'll implement it.

[mstepin-edt]

Agree that this would be nice for debugging. According to your docs its already possible for page:
PW docs say:

response.request()
Added in: v1.8
returns: <[Request](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-request)>[#](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-response#response-request-return)
Returns the matching [Request](https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-request) object.

Could be great for API debugging so I can be sure my headers have worked correctly, especially if the body or headers passed to APIRequestContext.post() have runtime variables.
Currently I cant even retrieve the headers or body from the APIRequestContext object, let alone the APIResponse object.