org.springframework.web.filter

Class CharacterEncodingFilter

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean

org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter

org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Filter, org.springframework.beans.factory.Aware, org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanNameAware, org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean, org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean, org.springframework.context.EnvironmentAware, ServletContextAware

public class CharacterEncodingFilter
extends OncePerRequestFilter

Servlet 2.3/2.4 Filter that allows one to specify a character encoding for requests. This is useful because current browsers typically do not set a character encoding even if specified in the HTML page or form.

This filter can either apply its encoding if the request does not already specify an encoding, or enforce this filter's encoding in any case ("forceEncoding"="true"). In the latter case, the encoding will also be applied as default response encoding on Servlet 2.4+ containers (although this will usually be overridden by a full content type set in the view).

Since:

15.03.2004

Author:

Juergen Hoeller

See Also:

setEncoding(java.lang.String), setForceEncoding(boolean), ServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding(java.lang.String), ServletResponse.setCharacterEncoding(java.lang.String)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter

ALREADY_FILTERED_SUFFIX

Fields inherited from class org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean

logger

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CharacterEncodingFilter()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected void	doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) Same contract as for doFilter, but guaranteed to be just invoked once per request within a single request thread.
void	setEncoding(String encoding) Set the encoding to use for requests.
void	setForceEncoding(boolean forceEncoding) Set whether the configured encoding of this filter is supposed to override existing request and response encodings.

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter

doFilter, getAlreadyFilteredAttributeName, isAsyncDispatch, isAsyncStarted, shouldNotFilter, shouldNotFilterAsyncDispatch, shouldNotFilterErrorDispatch

Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean

addRequiredProperty, afterPropertiesSet, destroy, getFilterConfig, getFilterName, getServletContext, init, initBeanWrapper, initFilterBean, setBeanName, setEnvironment, setServletContext

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CharacterEncodingFilter

public CharacterEncodingFilter()

Method Detail

setEncoding

public void setEncoding(String encoding)

Set the encoding to use for requests. This encoding will be passed into a ServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding(java.lang.String) call.

Whether this encoding will override existing request encodings (and whether it will be applied as default response encoding as well) depends on the "forceEncoding" flag.

setForceEncoding

public void setForceEncoding(boolean forceEncoding)

Set whether the configured encoding of this filter is supposed to override existing request and response encodings.

Default is "false", i.e. do not modify the encoding if ServletRequest.getCharacterEncoding() returns a non-null value. Switch this to "true" to enforce the specified encoding in any case, applying it as default response encoding as well.

Note that the response encoding will only be set on Servlet 2.4+ containers, since Servlet 2.3 did not provide a facility for setting a default response encoding.

doFilterInternal

protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request,
                    HttpServletResponse response,
                    FilterChain filterChain)
                         throws ServletException,
                                IOException

Description copied from class: OncePerRequestFilter

Same contract as for doFilter, but guaranteed to be just invoked once per request within a single request thread. See OncePerRequestFilter.shouldNotFilterAsyncDispatch() for details.

Provides HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse arguments instead of the default ServletRequest and ServletResponse ones.

Specified by:

doFilterInternal in class OncePerRequestFilter

Throws:

ServletException

IOException