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A filter is an object than perform filtering tasks
on either the request to a resource (a servlet or static content), or on the response from
a resource, or both.
Filters perform filtering in the doFilter
method. Every Filter has access to
a FilterConfig object from which it can obtain its initialization parameters, a
reference to the ServletContext which it can use, for example, to load resources
needed for filtering tasks.
Filters are configured in the deployment descriptor of a web application
Examples that have been identified for this design are
1) Authentication Filters
2) Logging and Auditing Filters
3) Image conversion Filters
4) Data compression Filters
5) Encryption Filters
6) Tokenizing Filters
7) Filters that trigger resource access events
8) XSL/T filters
9) Mime-type chain Filter
Method Summary | |
void |
doFilter(ServletRequest request,
ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain)
The doFilter method of the Filter is called by the container
each time a request/response pair is passed through the chain due
to a client request for a resource at the end of the chain. |
FilterConfig |
getFilterConfig()
Return the FilterConfig for this Filter. |
void |
setFilterConfig(FilterConfig filterConfig)
The container calls this method when the Filter is instantiated and passes in a FilterConfig object. |
Method Detail |
public void setFilterConfig(FilterConfig filterConfig)
public FilterConfig getFilterConfig()
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws java.io.IOException, ServletException
doFilter
method of the Filter is called by the container
each time a request/response pair is passed through the chain due
to a client request for a resource at the end of the chain. The FilterChain passed in to this
method allows the Filter to pass on the request and response to the next entity in the
chain.
A typical implementation of this method would follow the following pattern:-
1. Examine the request
2. Optionally wrap the request object with a custom implementation to
filter content or headers for input filtering
3. Optionally wrap the response object with a custom implementation to
filter content or headers for output filtering
4. a) Either invoke the next entity in the chain using the FilterChain object (chain.doFilter()
),
4. b) or not pass on the request/response pair to the next entity in the filter chain to block the request processing
5. Directly set headers on the response after invokation of the next entity in ther filter chain.
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