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How to configure Filter so that it will only process request but not response

 
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I want to know how to configure a filter so that it will process only the incoming request but not the response going from the server.
Any suggestion or corresponding links would be helpful


I read in Filter docs that we can have "A filter is an object that performs filtering tasks on either the request to a resource (a servlet or static content), or on the response from a resource, or both"
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In your filter after you call filter.doFilter();, don't do any further processing. Filters are not separately applied to request and response...
 
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I am sorry to say that i did not understand when you said "don't do any further processing". Can you explain that ?
 
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If you don't want to process the response, just don't write any code. You have to call "filter.doFilter()" and then after that don't do anything. Write zero lines of code. Return immediately. "Don't do anything" isn't really very complicated, but here's an example if you still need one:
 
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Thanks for the reply...
suppose if i want to do the filter even when response is sent then what should i do ?
I am asking this because my filters are not called when response is sent (Even though i currently don't need this feature in my app i would like to know.)
 
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James filters are not called separately for request and response. When the book said request or response or both, this is what they meant

 
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Thanks Ankit, i got it this time...
Thank you , will get back if need(i guess i don't have to).
 
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Hi James,

My 2 cents !!

Response Filters

Regds,
Amit
 
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Thanks Amit , i got that.
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