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Re: [Jersey] Response Filter and Exceptions

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:02:16 +0200

On Oct 8, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:

>
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:29 AM, Craig Iverson wrote:
>
>> I have a filter that implements both ContainerRequestFilter and
>> ContainerResponseFilter. I was hoping when an Exception was thrown
>> it would still go through the response filter. This does not seem
>> to be the case. I have some generic logic I want to apply to a
>> response no matter what happens. This logic uses data from the
>> request and sets things in the responses. Any ideas how to have
>> this generic logic applied to the Exception case?
>>
>
> We have a bug.
>
> When exceptions are thrown they may be mapped to responses. Filters
> can throw exceptions as well as terminate the filter chain and those
> exceptions can be mapped.
>
> I think we need to do the following:
>
> 1) Enable response filters to operate on the response regardless of
> whether it was produced from a request filter
> a resource class, or mapped from an exception; and
>
> 2) If the filter throws an exception and the response was mapped
> from an exception. Then the filter chain
> terminates and the exception is mapped to a response.
>

A refinement for 2): if a response filter throws an exception then the
filter chain terminates and the exception is mapped to a response.

Paul.

> Will that work for you?
>
> Paul.
>
>
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