/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package javax.servlet.http; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.FilterChain; import javax.servlet.GenericFilter; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletRequest; import javax.servlet.ServletResponse; public abstract class HttpFilter extends GenericFilter { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; /** * {@inheritDoc} * * This implementation tests the request and response to see if they are * instances of {@link HttpServletRequest} and {@link HttpServletResponse} * respectively. If they are then they are passed to * {@link #doFilter(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, FilterChain)}. * If not, a {@link ServletException} is thrown. * * @throws ServletException If either the request or response are not of the * expected types or any other error occurs */ @Override public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { if (!(request instanceof HttpServletRequest)) { throw new ServletException(request + " not HttpServletRequest"); } if (!(response instanceof HttpServletResponse)) { throw new ServletException(request + " not HttpServletResponse"); } doFilter((HttpServletRequest) request, (HttpServletResponse) response, chain); } /** * The <code>doFilter</code> 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. * <p> * A typical implementation of this method would follow the following * pattern:- <br> * 1. Examine the request<br> * 2. Optionally wrap the request object with a custom implementation to * filter content or headers for input filtering <br> * 3. Optionally wrap the response object with a custom implementation to * filter content or headers for output filtering <br> * 4. a) <strong>Either</strong> invoke the next entity in the chain using * the FilterChain object (<code>chain.doFilter()</code>), <br> * 4. b) <strong>or</strong> not pass on the request/response pair to the * next entity in the filter chain to block the request processing<br> * 5. Directly set headers on the response after invocation of the next * entity in the filter chain. * * This default implementation simply calls the next filter in the filter * chain. * * @param request The request to process * @param response The response associated with the request * @param 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 * @throws ServletException if the processing fails for any other reason */ protected void doFilter(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { chain.doFilter(request, response); } }