Http request properties

[shri-hari93]

Im working on a project to collect the metrics of the exoplayer. For my metrics, I'm looking forward to extract the http request properties(http list in dash.js) when the player request for fragments. Is there any possible way in the current api to get what I am looking for?

[FD-]

I believe one possibility would be to use the OkHttp extension. When creating the OkHttpClient to be passed to the OkHttpDataSourceFactory constructor, install an Interceptor. From within the Interceptor, you should be able to read the request header fields.

[AquilesCanta]

All media sources -I guess you are interested in DASH- allow you to inject a DataSourceFactory. You can provide your own DataSource implementation which intercepts all requests. Please let me know if this does not cover your needs. Have a look at the DefaultDashChunkSource.

[AquilesCanta]

Also, maybe @tonihei can provide better advise.

[tonihei]

You'll get some request details as a listener callback when you add an AnalyticsListener with SimpleExoPlayer.addAnalyticsListener and check for onLoadStarted, onLoadCompleted, onLoadCanceled and onLoadError. All these callback have a LoadEventInfo class containing the uri, byte range and post body of the request (in DataSpec).

However, I suppose you refer to the HTTP request headers and/or response headers? These are not currently part of the callback, but we can add them to LoadEventInfo as this information may be of general interest. Marking as an enhancement to track this.

[shri-hari93]

Thanks for your help. I will explore this and really looking forward for the enhancement. To clarify @tonihei doubt of what I'm looking for: http://cdn.dashjs.org/latest/jsdoc/streaming_vo_metrics_HTTPRequest.js.html
The metrics similar to the members of the class listed in above link

[tonihei]

Thanks. I think we already have all of the information in this class available and just need to add the response headers.