On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>>>> IMO, no filters should be executed until the resource method is
>>>>>> matched except for PreMatch filters.
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>> (also from the context) seems to suggest no response filters should be run if pre-matching request filter aborts the processing with a response.
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> You took me out of context. I was talking about post-match global request filters and that they should be sorted and executed with name-bound filters.
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> Should global response filters be executed from a pre-match abort? I think so? Thoughts?
Yes, I believe it's explained in the spec. The only caveat for users is things like @ResourceInfo which won't be available; methods in that class can return null according to Javadoc.
-- Santiago