org.acegisecurity.util
Class FilterChainProxy

java.lang.Object
  org.acegisecurity.util.FilterChainProxy

All Implemented Interfaces:

javax.servlet.Filter, InitializingBean, ApplicationContextAware

public class FilterChainProxy
extends Object
implements javax.servlet.Filter, InitializingBean, ApplicationContextAware

Delegates Filter requests to a list of Spring-managed beans.

The FilterChainProxy is loaded via a standard FilterToBeanProxy declaration in web.xml. FilterChainProxy will then pass init(FilterConfig), destroy(), #doInit() and doFilter(ServletRequest, ServletResponse, FilterChain) invocations through to each Filter defined against FilterChainProxy.

FilterChainProxy is configured using a standard FilterInvocationDefinitionSource. Each possible URI pattern that FilterChainProxy should service must be entered. The first matching URI pattern located by FilterInvocationDefinitionSource for a given request will be used to define all of the Filters that apply to that request. NB: This means you must put most specific URI patterns at the top of the list, and ensure all Filters that should apply for a given URI pattern are entered against the respective entry. The FilterChainProxy will not iterate the remainder of the URI patterns to locate additional Filters. The FilterInvocationDefinitionSource described the applicable URI pattern to fire the filter chain, followed by a list of configuration attributes. Each configuration attribute's ConfigAttribute.getAttribute() corresponds to a bean name that is available from the application context.

FilterChainProxy respects normal handling of Filters that elect not to call Filter.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse, javax.servlet.FilterChain), in that the remainder of the origial or FilterChainProxy-declared filter chain will not be called.

It is particularly noted the Filter lifecycle mismatch between the servlet container and IoC container. As per FilterToBeanProxy JavaDocs, we recommend you allow the IoC container to manage lifecycle instead of the servlet container. By default the FilterToBeanProxy will never call this class' init(FilterConfig) and destroy() methods, meaning each of the filters defined against FilterInvocationDefinitionSource will not be called. If you do need your filters to be initialized and destroyed, please set the lifecycle initialization parameter against the FilterToBeanProxy to specify servlet container lifecycle management.

Version:

$Id: FilterChainProxy.java,v 1.6 2005/11/17 00:56:09 benalex Exp $

Author:

Carlos Sanchez, Ben Alex

Constructor Summary

FilterChainProxy()

Method Summary

void	afterPropertiesSet()
void	destroy()
void	doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request, javax.servlet.ServletResponse response, javax.servlet.FilterChain chain)
FilterInvocationDefinitionSource	getFilterInvocationDefinitionSource()
void	init(javax.servlet.FilterConfig filterConfig)
void	setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext)
void	setFilterInvocationDefinitionSource(FilterInvocationDefinitionSource filterInvocationDefinitionSource)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FilterChainProxy

public FilterChainProxy()

Method Detail

setApplicationContext

public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext)
                           throws BeansException

Specified by:

setApplicationContext in interface ApplicationContextAware

Throws:

BeansException

setFilterInvocationDefinitionSource

public void setFilterInvocationDefinitionSource(FilterInvocationDefinitionSource filterInvocationDefinitionSource)

getFilterInvocationDefinitionSource

public FilterInvocationDefinitionSource getFilterInvocationDefinitionSource()

afterPropertiesSet

public void afterPropertiesSet()
                        throws Exception

Specified by:

afterPropertiesSet in interface InitializingBean

Throws:

Exception

destroy

public void destroy()

Specified by:

destroy in interface javax.servlet.Filter

doFilter

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

Specified by:

doFilter in interface javax.servlet.Filter

Throws:

IOException

javax.servlet.ServletException

init

public void init(javax.servlet.FilterConfig filterConfig)
          throws javax.servlet.ServletException

Specified by:

init in interface javax.servlet.Filter

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException