Hi, If you have two interceptors A and B that go into the same phase and additionally you want to make sure A must precede B, you can either write addBefore(B) in A's constructor or addAfter(A) in B's constructor.
But is there a good rule for deciding which one to choose? The concrete case that I have is for LoggingOutInterceptor and TransformOutInterceptor. They both go into PRE_STREAM.. LoggingOI should wrap the output stream before anyone start using it, so it must precede any Stax based interceptors. That means we have the order: LoggingOI < TransformOI < StaxOI Initially, I added this constraint in the constructor of TransformOI as I was fixing another issue of this class. addBefore(StaxOI) addAfter(LoggingOI). But later I thought, it might have been more readable to put this constraint in the LoggingOI as addBefore(StaxOI) addBefore(TransformOI). to indicate LoggingOI must precede any known Stax based interceptors. Maybe, this is a stupid question. But if someone has a strong opinion in one way or the other. I am interested in hearing it. Thanks. regards, aki
