2009/2/10 Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com>:
>
> On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:21 PM, James Strachan wrote:
>
>> 2009/2/3 Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have managed to achieve some progress with filters. My latest commit
>>> modifies ServletContainer to be a Servlet or a Filter depending on where
>>> you
>>> use it. The same Servlet behavior is supported as before.
>>>
>>> The filter behavior is currently very simple:
>>>
>>> - the filter needs to be declared at the end of the filter chain. It does
>>> not pass on processing to the next filter in the chain, if
>>> any is configured.
>>>
>>> - the base URI is set to:
>>>
>>> http:://<host>:<port>/<context path>/
>>>
>>> so even if your filter is configured to filter say "resources/*" the
>>> "resources" path segment will not be considered part of the
>>> base URI.
>>>
>>> IIUC to support such behavior we need to support an init-param that
>>> declares a filter context path.
>>>
>>> - the same initialization parameters as for servlet initialization apply.
>>>
>>> Since the SpringServlet extends from ServletContainer it can also be used
>>> as
>>> a filter.
>>>
>>> Thus it should be possible to add a filter before the ServletContainer
>>> filter to forward to static resources.
>>>
>>> If people could try this out it when a new build appears on the repo that
>>> would be much appreciated. The following is the web.xml of the bookstore
>>> sample modified to use the filter:
>>>
>>> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
>>> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
>>> version="2.4">
>>> <filter>
>>> <filter-name>Jersey Filter</filter-name>
>>>
>>>
>>> <filter-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</filter-class>
>>> <init-param>
>>> <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.feature.Redirect</param-name>
>>> <param-value>true</param-value>
>>> </init-param>
>>> <init-param>
>>>
>>> <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.feature.ImplicitViewables</param-name>
>>> <param-value>true</param-value>
>>> </init-param>
>>> <init-param>
>>> <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
>>>
>>> <param-value>com.sun.jersey.samples.bookstore.resources</param-value>
>>> </init-param>
>>> </filter>
>>> <filter-mapping>
>>> <filter-name>Jersey Filter</filter-name>
>>> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
>>> </filter-mapping>
>>> </web-app>
>>
>> I tried patching the web.xml of the bookstore sample to use this
>> web.xml and it seems to work perfectly - apart from allowing static
>> files through.
>>
>> I've raised issue 208 with a patch...
>> https://jersey.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=208
>>
>> which adds a String property to the Jersey filter to allow a regex to
>> be used to filter on the servlet path to allow things to be excluded.
>> For example setting the value of the regex to
>>
>> /(images|css|js)/.*
>>
>> will allow most static content through on most web apps. I've patched
>> the bookstore sample to have a simple CSS file then I use this
>> configuration property in the web.xml to allow Jersey to let the
>> default web container render static content while Jersey deals with
>> the JAX-RS resources. There's a simple test case included too.
>>
>
> Thanks! very neat. Too late for 1.0.2 unfortunately but not for
> 1.0.3-SNAPSHOT, i will commit it next week.
Sorry it took me so long to get around to it :) No worries on not
making 1.0.2 - looking forward to 1.0.3! :)
--
James
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