On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Bill Barker <billwbar...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> "Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote in message
> news:4bcf5f41.6060...@christopherschultz.net...
>>
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>> André,
>>
>> On 4/21/2010 3:46 PM, André Warnier wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 21/04/2010 20:24, André Warnier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Thomas wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd just use JAD and decompile it.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.  But although my intentions are not obnoxious nor illegal nor
>>>>> anything of the kind, I would not want to even come under suspicion of
>>>>> reverse-engineering.  So is there something that just lists the
>>>>> standard
>>>>> calls/methods used in it ?
>>>>
>>>> No. You can see the methods it exposes, but not the methods it uses.
>>>> Time to add some  debug code to your wrapper to see what is being
>>>> called?
>>>>
>>> Mmmm. :-(
>>> How do I do that, assuming I do not know in advance which methods it
>>> calls ?
>>> Do I need to define all the methods of HttpServletRequest in my wrapper,
>>> just to make them trace their call ?
>>> Or does there exist some more dummy-user-friendly methodology ?
>>
>> It's pretty inaccessible for novice Java programmers, but you could use
>> the "proxy" API which is jsut about the coolest thing available in Java
>> IMO.
>>
>> This is how you do the wrapping of the request:
>>
>> import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
>> import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
>>
>> public class RequestMethodCallLogger
>>  implements InvocationHandler, Filter
>> {
>>  public void doFilter(...) {
>>   HttpServletRequest wrappedRequest
>>    = Proxy.newProxyInstance(HttpServletRequest.class.getClassLoader(),
>>                             new Class[] { HttpServletRequest.class },
>>                             this);
>>
>>   chain.doFilter(wrappedRequest, response);
>>  }
>>
>>  public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args)
>>  {
>>   // Log to your favorite logger here
>>
>>   return method.invoke(proxy, args);
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> Basically, the Proxy class allows you to intercept the calls to
>> interface methods. The implementation of the "invoke" method is just a
>> pass-through to the "real" method after logging (an exercise left for
>> the reader).
>>
>> This can be optimized a bit if you need to use it long-term, but the
>> above is about as compact as it gets.
>>
>
> If it does a forward or include done the line, this won't work with any
> remotely recent version of Tomcat.  These versions enforce the spec
> requirement that the Request has to be a subclass of HttpServletWrapper
> wrapping the original request, or the original request.

Good point - which really kills the proxy approach as a
general-purpose solution in this context...

>> I'd still recommend the use of jad, honestly.
>>
>> - -chris
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-- 
Kris Schneider

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