An easy way to capture the incoming requests to your server and replay them can be very useful. For example, if you lack an automation team, or simply want to be quick about it, you can record the REST requests of a scenario and play them again after every push to GIT. You can also use the recorded requests to simulate many users. Or, you can analyze the requests to learn useful statistics, etc. You get the idea.
OK, so how can we do it the easy way? First, we’ll exploit spring boot Zuul gateway filters feature – this gateway can activate custom filters for every request and every response. A handler must simply extend ZuulFilter and provide information of: