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Peter Ertl updated WICKET-3219:
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Attachment: filter-extension.patch
> programmatical addition or removal of filters prior to wicket filter request
> handling
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>
> Key: WICKET-3219
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3219
> Project: Wicket
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Peter Ertl
> Assignee: Peter Ertl
> Fix For: 1.5-M4
>
> Attachments: filter-extension.patch
>
>
> [full-working patch included]
> I would like to extend WicketFilter so you can add (or remove) standard
> servlet filters programatically to it. These will filter the request prior
> to wicket using Filter#doChain(). At the end of the filter chain wicket
> itself will process the request.
> Usually the wicket request handling looks like this:
> incoming browser request ->
> begin WicketFilter#doFilter ->
> wicket request processing ->
> end WicketFilter#doFilter ->
> send response to browser
> Now when adding standard java.servlet.Filter instances to the WicketFilter
> using something like
> --- sample code ---
> public class MyApplication extends WebApplication
> {
> @Override
> protected void init()
> {
> super.init();
> XForwardFilter filter = new XForwardFilter(); // transparent
> proxy handling behind front-end proxies
> try
> {
> getWicketFilter().addInterceptor(filter);
> ////////// getWicketFilter().addInterceptor(filter,
> config); // alternate config (e.g. mock filter config since FilterConfig is
> just an interface)
> }
> catch (ServletException e)
> {
> // standard exception which can be thrown from
> javax.servlet.Filter#init(FilterConfig)
> log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
> }
> }
> --- EOF sample code ---
> the processing will change like that:
> incoming browser request ->
> begin WicketFilter#doFilter ->
> begin XForwardFilter#doFilter() ->
> XForwardFilter processing ->
> chain.doFilter(request,response) ->
> invoke wicket request processing ->
> end XForwardFilter#doFilter() ->
> end WicketFilter#doFilter ->
> send response to browser
> - The filter (= interceptor) will be invoked for the same filter path
> WicketFilter is configured
> Being able to add filters like this will have the following advantages:
> - The filter can be added or removed anytime during the wicket application
> lifecycle
> - You don't have to touch web.xml ever
> - You can specify mock filter configs or alternate filter configs using
> (WicketFilter#addInterceptor(filter, alternateFilterConfig))
> - Tigher integration of the filter with wicket since the application and
> session is already attached to the current thread context (similar to
> WicketSessionFilter, but without web.xml fiddling)
> - Plugins can add filters without requiring any manual intervention by the
> developer, this will make them more powerful
> - Filters can be removed thread-safe at runtime
> - Low-level request processing is really simple and requests or responses can
> be wrapped using HttpServletRequestWrapper and HttpServletResponseWrapper
> - the filter class can not be invalid (<filter-class> in web.xml) since it's
> checked by the compiler
> - Eventually migration from pre-wicket application might be easier
> Please check the patch to get the whole idea.
> Votes and comments are greatly appreciated :-)
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