We added a GenericFilter that allows you to define new Http Filters thanks to an external plugin. Your filter will need to implement the interface org.exoplatform.web.filter.Filter.

See an example of configuration below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<configuration

  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.exoplatform.org/xml/ns/kernel_1_2.xsd http://www.exoplatform.org/xml/ns/kernel_1_2.xsd"

  xmlns="http://www.exoplatform.org/xml/ns/kernel_1_2.xsd">

  <external-component-plugins>

    <!-- The full qualified name of the ExtensibleFilter -->

    <target-component>org.exoplatform.web.filter.ExtensibleFilter</target-component>

    <component-plugin>

      <!-- The name of the plugin -->

      <name>Sample Filter Definition Plugin</name>

      <!-- The name of the method to call on the ExtensibleFilter in order to register the FilterDefinitions -->

      <set-method>addFilterDefinitions</set-method>

      <!-- The full qualified name of the FilterDefinitionPlugin -->

      <type>org.exoplatform.web.filter.FilterDefinitionPlugin</type>

      <init-params>

        <object-param>

          <name>Sample Filter Definition</name>

          <object type="org.exoplatform.web.filter.FilterDefinition">

            <!-- The filter instance -->

            <field name="filter"><object type="org.exoplatform.sample.ext.web.SampleFilter"/></field>

            <!-- The mapping to use -->

            <!-- WARNING: the mapping is expressed with regular expressions -->

            <field name="patterns">

              <collection type="java.util.ArrayList" item-type="java.lang.String">

                <value>

                  <string>/.*</string>

                </value>

              </collection>

            </field>

          </object>

        </object-param>

      </init-params>

    </component-plugin>

  </external-component-plugins>

</configuration>

See an example of Filter below:

...

import org.exoplatform.web.filter.Filter;


import java.io.IOException;


import javax.servlet.FilterChain;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;


public class SampleFilter implements Filter

{


   public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException,

      ServletException

   {

      System.out.println("SampleFilter start");

      try

      {

         chain.doFilter(request, response);

      }

      finally

      {

         System.out.println("SampleFilter end");

      }

   }

}