Best way to log API calls that create records

If you have access to core code you can add logging to ~/include/api/RestService.php just below the comment that has "// This looks like the post contents are JSON".

Something like:

                    // This looks like the post contents are JSON
                    // Note: If we want to support rest based XML, we will need to change this

@$GLOBALS['log']->fatal("POSTED DATA:$postContents");

Add extra code to filter out unwanted requests based on $this->getRequest()->getRequestURI().

If it is sugarondemand then you may be able to create a ~/custom/include/api/RestService.php, derive from the core code RestService and override getRequestArgs(). I've not tried that though.

If you have access to core code you can add logging to ~/include/api/RestService.php just below the comment that has "// This looks like the post contents are JSON".

Something like:

                    // This looks like the post contents are JSON
                    // Note: If we want to support rest based XML, we will need to change this

@$GLOBALS['log']->fatal("POSTED DATA:$postContents");

Add extra code to filter out unwanted requests based on $this->getRequest()->getRequestURI().

If it is sugarondemand then you may be able to create a ~/custom/include/api/RestService.php, derive from the core code RestService and override getRequestArgs(). I've not tried that though.

Please don't make any changes to the core files.. this is not upgrade save. Always make changes using the custom dataframework. 

 ~/custom/include/RestService.php ist an add-on file wich is called before the REST service functions are executed.

Code of ~/api/rest.php:

ob_start();
chdir(dirname(__FILE__).'/../');
define('ENTRY_POINT_TYPE', 'api');
require('include/entryPoint.php');
SugarAutoLoader::load('custom/include/RestService.php');
$restServiceClass = SugarAutoLoader::customClass('RestService');

global $service;
$service = new $restServiceClass();
$service->execute()

So you can add logging of incoming data to such a custom file without touching the core files.