chic_http_logger 0.1.0

A pretty, boxed console logger for package:http — request/response headers, bodies, status, and timing rendered like pretty_dio_logger, with zero Flutter dependency.

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