Given this filter:
public class MyFilter implements Filter{
@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
System.out.println("FILTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"+((HttpServletRequest)request).getRequestURI());
chain.doFilter(request, response);
}
I've seen that is is called many times in the same request
Spring Boot App:
@SpringBootApplication(scanBasePackageClasses={MySpringBootDemoApplication .class, TilesConfiguration.class})
public class MySpringBootDemoApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(MySpringBootDemoApplication .class, args);
}
@Bean
public Filter myFilter(){
return new MyFilter();
}
}
TilesConfiguration:
@Configuration
public class TilesConfiguration {
@Bean
public TilesConfigurer tilesConfigurer() {
final TilesConfigurer configurer = new TilesConfigurer();
configurer.setDefinitions(new String[] { "WEB-INF/**/tiles.xml" });
configurer.setCheckRefresh(true);
return configurer;
}
@Bean
public TilesViewResolver tilesViewResolver() {
final TilesViewResolver resolver = new TilesViewResolver();
resolver.setViewClass(TilesView.class);
return resolver;
}
}
This is what I see in the logs:
FILTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/spring-boot-demo/home
FILTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/spring-boot-demo/WEB-INF/layouts/standard.jsp
FILTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/spring-boot-demo/WEB-INF/layouts/standard.jsp
FILTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/spring-boot-demo/WEB-INF/layouts/standard.jsp
The only real request made by the browser is:
FILTERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/spring-boot-demo/home
Where do the tiles related (/standard.jsp
) come from? In traditional Spring MVC applications they never showed up.
I know that MyFilter could extend OncePerRequestFilter but I can't modify the real filters I have to use, they come from legacy libraries.
I just realized that since MyFilter is mapped against /*
it'll also be called on container forwards (hence Tile's standard.jsp...). I changed the DispatcherServlet to match /action/*
, and so did with the filter:
@Bean
public FilterRegistrationBean myFilter(){
FilterRegistrationBean frb = new FilterRegistrationBean();
frb.setFilter(new MyFilter());
frb.setUrlPatterns(Arrays.asList(new String[]{"/action/*"}));
return frb;
@Bean
public ServletRegistrationBean dispatcherRegistration(DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet) {
ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(dispatcherServlet);
registration.addUrlMappings("/action/*");
return registration;
}