Testing and logging third party calls/notifications to endpoints
Development and Programming
I have a third party service that sends a JSON to an endpoint on my server, (basically it just calls a public method on a custom addon) and I’d like to see what is received. What do you use to test that kind of third party calls/notifications?
So a nice group effort on this one in slack. The first suggestion was the old favorite var_dump, but it was not practical as it was a third party calling in and no idea on the timing.
The next option- logging. Tom mentioned https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/development/legacy/libraries/logger.html which makes something like this easy:
ee()->load->library('logger');
$payload = print_r($post_var, trus);
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With https://ngrok.com/docs/getting-started/ as another popular alternative.