https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51754
Bug #: 51754
Summary: Tomcat7 filters from conf/web.xml are applied after
filters defined in WEB-INF/web.xml
Product: Tomcat 7
Version: 7.0.19
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Servlet & JSP API
AssignedTo: dev@tomcat.apache.org
ReportedBy: charles...@yahoo.com
Classification: Unclassified
The behavior of filter ordering for default web.xml (i.e conf/web.xml) and the
application filters in WEB-INF/web.xml has been changed from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat
7.
As you can see from the start method in
http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/apache/catalina/startup/ContextConfig.java.html
it processes the default web.xml first
and then the application web config. This makes the filters from the default
web.xml excuted before the application provided filters. We were heavily
relying on this behavior for processing the filters.
1040 /**
1041 * Process a "start" event for this Context.
1042 */
1043 protected synchronized void start() {
1044 // Called from StandardContext.start()
1045
1046 if (log.isDebugEnabled())
1047 log.debug(sm.getString("contextConfig.start"));
1048
1049 // Set properties based on DefaultContext
1050 Container container = context.getParent();
1051 if( !context.getOverride() ) {
1052 if( container instanceof Host ) {
1053 // Reset the value only if the attribute wasn't
1054 // set on the context.
1055 xmlValidation = context.getXmlValidation();
1056 if (!xmlValidation) {
1057 xmlValidation =
((Host)container).getXmlValidation();
1058 }
1059
1060 xmlNamespaceAware = context.getXmlNamespaceAware();
1061 if (!xmlNamespaceAware){
1062 xmlNamespaceAware
1063 =
((Host)container).getXmlNamespaceAware();
1064 }
1065
1066 container = container.getParent();
1067 }
1068 }
1069
1070 // Process the default and application web.xml files
1071 defaultWebConfig();
1072 applicationWebConfig();
So, now with Tomcat 7, its different.
Merging mechanism seeing in Tomcat 7 looks as follows in general:
From
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/ContextConfig.java
1) Create appWebXml for /WEB-INF/web.xml
2) Create globalWebXml for conf/web.xml
3) orderedFragments are merged to appWebXml ( Merge web-fragment.xml files into
the main web.xml)
4) globalWebXml is merged to appWebXml (which means that list of global filters
are added to existing application
defined filters)
After going through the Servlet API specs for 2.5 and 3.0, I didn't find
anything related to how default web.xml and application provided web.xml should
be ordered. (Did I miss anything?)
There is a deployment descriptor fragments introduced in 3.0 but it applies to
web.xml and the web-fragment.xml.
Changes in the ordering of filters from Tomcat 6 to 7 creates a lot of issues
for us. Can this be fixed in Tomcat 7? If not, can you provide any suggestions
for workaround?
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