this is kind of unrelated, but sort of related...
will a filter only be used once per request? for example, if i have a filter
mapped to /*, then from a servlet, i forward to another servlet or to a jsp,
will the filter be run twice, or just once?
thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Jamison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:14 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Future of Filter?
>
>
> Amy Roh wrote:
>
> > Servlet spec 2.3 has changed to support init(FilterConfig
> config) and
> > destroy() methods instead of getFilterConfig() and
> > setFilterConfig(FilterConfig config) after discussion to
> change filter cycle
> > to be similar to the servlet life cycle in the expert
> group. The recent
> > changes will be reflected in the new Proposed Final Draft 2
> (which will be
> > available to public very soon). So TC4 is up to date with
> the recent spec.
> > :-)
> >
> > Amy
> >
> Thanks, that's what I suspected.
>
> By the way, I did not find any examples that actually performed any
> filtering. Would this be a common usage pattern for Filter? :
>
>
>
>
> ==== SNIP ====
>
> public class MyFilter implements Filter
> {
>
> //---An inner class wrapper that does my filtering
> class MyServletResponse extends ServletResponseWrapper
> {
> public MyServletResponse(ServletResponse response)
> {
> super(response);
> //do stuff
> }
> }
> //---end inner class
>
>
>
> public void doFilter(ServletRequest request,
> ServletResponse response,
> FilterChain chain)
> throws IOException,ServletException
> {
> MyServletResponse altResponse = new MyServletResponse(response);
> chain.doFilter(request,altResponse);
> }
>
> }
>
> ==== UN-SNIP ====
>
>
>
>
> Something like that, maybe?
>
>
>
> Anyway, thanks again.
>
> Bob
