Found the answer: I used WebApplicationContextUtils to get the Spring WebApplicationContext. For example, this.webApplicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(webContext.getContext());
Brody Wong wrote: > > I have written a preprocess filter for the commons chain from the > ShaleApplicationFilter. I have also successfully integrate Shale and > Spring using the value binding method. However, I would like to access > the Spring Bean Factory inside the preprocess filter. Is there anyway to > get an instance of the Spring's WebApplicationContext inside the > preprocess filter? The following is the sample code I wrote: public class > PermissionFilter extends AbstractRegExpFilter { > PermissionsManager permissionsManager ; > > /** > * <p>Return the servlet path (if any) concatenated with the path info > * (if any) for this request.</p> > * > * @param context <code>Context</code> for the current request > */ > protected String value(ShaleWebContext context) { > > if (this.permissionsManager == null) { > > WebApplicationContext wac = > (WebApplicationContext)context.getContext() ; > this.permissionsManager = > (PermissionsManager)wac.getBean("permissionsManager") ; > > } > String servletPath = context.getRequest().getServletPath(); > if (servletPath == null) { > servletPath = ""; > } > String pathInfo = context.getRequest().getPathInfo(); > if (pathInfo == null) { > pathInfo = ""; > } > return servletPath + pathInfo ; > > } > > > } > But it fails when casting the servlet context to Spring's > WebApplicationContext. Thanks in advance for your help. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Accessing-Spring-Beans-inside-ShaleApplication-preprocess-hook-tf4219349.html#a12010504 Sent from the Shale - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.