diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 818d131359..9bfadc01a5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
         <module>spring-zuul</module>
         <module>spring-reactor</module>
         <module>spring-vertx</module>
+        <module>spring-rest-logging</module>
 
         <module>testing</module>
         <module>testng</module>
diff --git a/spring-rest-logging/src/main/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/util/RequestLoggingUtil.java b/spring-rest-logging/src/main/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/util/RequestLoggingUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c9eebf34e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-rest-logging/src/main/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/util/RequestLoggingUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package com.baeldung.rest.log.util;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.springframework.web.util.ContentCachingRequestWrapper;
+import org.springframework.web.util.WebUtils;
+
+public class RequestLoggingUtil {
+
+    public static String getStringFromInputStream(InputStream is) {
+        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
+        String encoding = "UTF-8";
+        try {
+            IOUtils.copy(is, writer, encoding);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        return writer.toString();
+    }
+
+    public static String readPayload(final HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
+        String payloadData = null;
+        ContentCachingRequestWrapper contentCachingRequestWrapper = WebUtils.getNativeRequest(request, ContentCachingRequestWrapper.class);
+        if (null != contentCachingRequestWrapper) {
+            byte[] buf = contentCachingRequestWrapper.getContentAsByteArray();
+            if (buf.length > 0) {
+                payloadData = new String(buf, 0, buf.length, contentCachingRequestWrapper.getCharacterEncoding());
+            }
+        }
+        return payloadData;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-rest-logging/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/controller/TestTaxiFareController.java b/spring-rest-logging/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/controller/TestTaxiFareController.java
index 61d279a0c5..ed3cdda7ad 100644
--- a/spring-rest-logging/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/controller/TestTaxiFareController.java
+++ b/spring-rest-logging/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rest/log/controller/TestTaxiFareController.java
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ public class TestTaxiFareController {
     private static final String URL = "http://localhost:" + 9090 + "/rest-log/taxifare/";
     
     @Test
-    public void given_taxi_fare_get() {
+    public void givenRequest_thenfetchTaxiFareRateCard() {
         TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate = new TestRestTemplate();
         ResponseEntity<String> response = testRestTemplate.getForEntity(URL + "get/", String.class);
         assertThat(response.getStatusCode(), equalTo(HttpStatus.OK));
     }
     
     @Test
-    public void given_taxi_ride_get_fare() {
+    public void givenTaxiRide_thenGetCalculatedFare() {
         TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate = new TestRestTemplate();
         TaxiRide taxiRide = new TaxiRide(true,10l);
         String fare = testRestTemplate.postForObject(URL + "calculate/", taxiRide,String.class);