Logging WS requests in playframework scala

gistfile1.scala

// I'm looking for a better solution for the time logging (preferable in a transparent way)

  private def logTime(message: String, promise: Future[Response]) = {
    // not 100% ok, request is already running
    // might even not be started yet
    val now = System.currentTimeMillis
    promise.onRedeem { response =>
      val time = System.currentTimeMillis - now
      logger.info(message + " => " + response.status + " " + time + "ms " + response.body.length + "b")
    }
    promise
  }  
  
  
  def user(slug: String): Future[Option[User]] = {
    val url = ...
    logTime(url,
      WS.url(url).get()
    ).map {
      ...handle response
    }
  }
  

Now I also want to get rid of the url being used twice and the logging to contain the get/post/delete...

Being more fresh at the morning... I'm seeing my error! Pimping won't work because, it won't let you use the rest lazily (or by-name). So that's not a solution.

And, it'll be hard to get something quite integrated because we switch from a type to another in this call (from WSRequestHolder and Future) and since the get call is already creating the future for us it's even harder because we need to map it.

I thing the Play API is too restrictive at this point to allow a simpler solution :-/

I'll have to fork the play WS class then. Would have been nice if the async httpcliend had a global hook