How Can I Display the request body of an API Call

[nluoma]

I am working on an outbound SOAP call, and trying to debug it. The team I am working with is unable to provide me with the request of the API call they receive, so I was attempting to view it from within ServiceNow to see where the error is coming in.

I have turned on Extended logging for the API method, but when I view Outbound HTTP Requests, the request's body is empty.

I attempted to modify my UI Action to collect the Request Body (in addition to the Response Body), but it gave me an error message. My code is:

// Execute SOAP request and get response
var response = sm.execute();
var ResponseBody = response.getBody(); //get the response as a string, so we can parse it later

var requestBody = request.body;  //get the request body so we can view it
var requestString = requestBody.dataString; //convert to a string
gs.log('Request body is ' + requestString);
gs.addInfoMessage('Request is ' + requestString);

I've been searching for the solution, and I'm sure the problem is the "request.body", but I cannot find the code to fix it in the reference docs.

[nluoma]

Well, I never did figure out how to retrieve the request.body, but I did manage to figure out what was wrong with my HTTP output not showing the body. It turns out it's multiple things. Here's what I found:

1. Change the system to debug SOAP calls. I'm not sure which was correct, but I created the following system properties and set them to 'true'
   glide.processor.debug.SOAPProcessor
   glide.soap.debug
2. Change the HTTP Log level to "ALL" (the other levels don't show the body.) This will show the body but ONLY the first 100 characters.
3. Change the system property glide.outbound_http.content.max_limit to a number larger than 100.

Hope this helps someone else.