From: Louis Polycarpou <louis_at_adjoovo.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:01:16 +0000

Hi,

I'm using a ContainerRequestFilter impl which serves as a Security
Filter and I wanted to use it to pass some custom properties to the
request so that it is accessible from any resource e.g. using @Context
injection on the HttpServletRequest.

I've tried setting InBoundHeaders but this did not seem to work...

Filter code:

public class MyFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {

...
public ContainerRequest filter(ContainerRequest request) {

         InBoundHeaders hdr = new InBoundHeaders();
         hdr.addObject("myobj", obj);

         request.setHeaders(hdr);
         return request;
     }
...
}

Resource code:

@Path...
...
public class BaseResource {

     @Context
     protected HttpServletRequest request;

     // Injection onto constructor parameter
     public BaseResource() {
         System.out.println("My obj is: " + request.getHeader
("myobj")); // IS NULL
     }
...
}

Have I missed a trick here or is there another way to do this?

Thanks,
Louis

Louis Polycarpou (founder)


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