chic_http_logger

A pretty, boxed console logger for package:http — request/response headers, bodies, status codes, and timing rendered in the same boxed style as pretty_dio_logger, but for the plain http package and with zero Flutter dependency.

╔ Request ║ POST
║  https://example.com/api/users
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╔ Headers
║  content-type: application/json
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╔ Body
║  {"name":"morpheus"}
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╔ Response ║ POST ║ Status: 201 ║ Time: 214 ms
║  https://example.com/api/users
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╔ Body
║  {"id":42,"name":"morpheus"}
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Status and method lines are color-coded (green for 2xx, orange for 4xx, red for 5xx and errors) when your console supports ANSI.

Install

dart pub add chic_http_logger   # or: flutter pub add chic_http_logger

Usage

ChicHttpLogger is an http.Client decorator — wrap the client you already use and call it exactly the same way:

import 'package:chic_http_logger/chic_http_logger.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

final client = ChicHttpLogger(innerClient: http.Client());

final response = await client.get(Uri.parse('https://example.com'));

client.close(); // closes the wrapped client too

Because responses are fully buffered in order to log them, avoid wrapping a client used for very large downloads.

Security

mode defaults to LogMode.auto, which silences all logging in release builds (detected via dart.vm.product) so headers, tokens, and bodies never reach a production console. Pass LogMode.always or LogMode.never to override that.

Options

Option	Default	Description
`mode`	`LogMode.auto`	Whether logging is active at all (see above)
`requestHeaders`	`true`	Log request headers
`requestBody`	`true`	Log the request body
`responseHeaders`	`false`	Log response headers
`responseBody`	`true`	Log the response body
`error`	`true`	Log a block when the request throws
`compact`	`true`	Minify JSON bodies onto one line; `false` pretty-prints with indentation
`maxWidth`	`90`	Column width each line wraps to
`colors`	`true`	Colorize output with ANSI escape codes
`logPrint`	`print`	Sink each printed line is sent to

Multipart requests log field names/values and file metadata only (never file contents); binary or non-UTF-8 bodies print as <N bytes, binary or non-UTF-8 body> instead of being dumped raw.

License

MIT