How to display restful request and response on the browser. My client wants to debug the request and response from client application

Question

I created a swing client application which calls Restful api. I want to display both request and response. I could display response but request since it is a URI i could not print it in a xml format. How to display the request

Answer 1

There are plenty of browser plugins that'll let you construct a request to RESTful services. My favorite is Postman for Chrome

It'll let you type in the URI, required headers, and body, and displayes the results. Very useful for debugging RESTFul services.

Answer 2

I have found RESTClient to be nice. Its available in both chrome and firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/restclient/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo

Personally I've only used the one on Firefox since there's where I do any of my debugging.