Package org.apache.catalina.filters

Class FailedRequestFilter

java.lang.Object

org.apache.catalina.filters.FilterBase

org.apache.catalina.filters.FailedRequestFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Filter

public class FailedRequestFilter
extends FilterBase

Filter that will reject requests if there was a failure during parameter parsing. This filter can be used to ensure that none parameter values submitted by client are lost.

Note that parameter parsing may consume the body of an HTTP request, so caution is needed if the servlet protected by this filter uses request.getInputStream() or request.getReader() calls. In general the risk of breaking a web application by adding this filter is not so high, because parameter parsing does check content type of the request before consuming the request body.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.catalina.filters.FilterBase

sm

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FailedRequestFilter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
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.
protected Log	getLogger()
protected boolean	isConfigProblemFatal()	Determines if an exception when calling a setter or an unknown configuration attribute triggers the failure of the this filter which in turn will prevent the web application from starting.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.filters.FilterBase

init

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface javax.servlet.Filter

destroy

Constructor Details

FailedRequestFilter

public FailedRequestFilter()

Method Details

getLogger

protected Log getLogger()

Specified by:

getLogger in class FilterBase

doFilter

public void doFilter(ServletRequest request,
 ServletResponse response,
 FilterChain chain)
              throws IOException,
ServletException

Description copied from interface: javax.servlet.Filter

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. 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 invocation of the next entity in the filter chain.

Parameters:

request - The request to process

response - The response associated with the request

chain - Provides access to the next filter in the chain for this filter to pass the request and response to for further processing

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs during this filter's processing of the request

ServletException - if the processing fails for any other reason

isConfigProblemFatal

protected boolean isConfigProblemFatal()

Description copied from class: FilterBase

Determines if an exception when calling a setter or an unknown configuration attribute triggers the failure of the this filter which in turn will prevent the web application from starting.

Overrides:

isConfigProblemFatal in class FilterBase

Returns:

true if a problem should trigger the failure of this filter, else false