Install the packages

First start by installing the two packages into your Laravel project.

composer require barryvdh/laravel-debugbar --dev
composer require hannesvdvreken/guzzle-debugbar --dev

Then add the service providers. As I only wanted to use the debugbar for local development I added them to the the AppServiceProvider instead of in the app.php config file.

// app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

public function register()
{
    if($this->app->isLocal()) {
        $this->app->register(\Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider::class);
        $this->app->register(\GuzzleHttp\Profiling\Debugbar\Support\Laravel\ServiceProvider::class);
    }
}

You may also need to run composer update if you are running an older version of Laravel 7 to get 7.18.

Adding the Middleware

The below code shows an example controller that sends a get request to the jsonplaceholder api and gets an array of users. Following the instructions on the Guzzle Debugbar package and a bit of trial and error I managed to add the profiler middleware to the Laravel HTTP Client.

It took me a while to figure out how to get the results to display in the debugbar. Initially I was setting the $debugbar = new StandardDebugbar(); before I saw a closed issue on the package that explains you need to get the debugbar from the IOC container.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use GuzzleHttp\Profiling\Debugbar\Profiler;
use GuzzleHttp\Profiling\Middleware;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\App;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

class ExampleController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $debugbar = App::make('debugbar');
        $timeline = $debugbar->getCollector('time');
        $profiler = new Profiler($timeline);

        $users = Http::withOptions([
                'base_uri' => 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/'
            ])
            ->withMiddleware(new Middleware($profiler))
            ->get('users')
            ->json();

        return view('example', compact('users'));
    }
}

When we load the view we now get the information about the request in the Timeline tab of the debugbar. The get request took 181ms.

#laravel #debugbar #http-client