org.apache.catalina.valves

Class RequestFilterValve

java.lang.Object

org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestFilterValve

All Implemented Interfaces:

Contained, Lifecycle, Valve, GlassFishValve

Direct Known Subclasses:

RemoteAddrValve, RemoteHostValve

public abstract class RequestFilterValve
extends ValveBase

Implementation of a Valve that performs filtering based on comparing the appropriate request property (selected based on which subclass you choose to configure into your Container's pipeline) against a set of regular expressions configured for this Valve.

This valve is configured by setting the allow and/or deny properties to a comma-delimited list of regular expressions (in the syntax supported by the jakarta-regexp library) to which the appropriate request property will be compared. Evaluation proceeds as follows:

• The subclass extracts the request property to be filtered, and calls the common process() method.
• If there are any deny expressions configured, the property will be compared to each such expression. If a match is found, this request will be rejected with a "Forbidden" HTTP response.
• If there are any allow expressions configured, the property will be compared to each such expression. If a match is found, this request will be allowed to pass through to the next Valve in the current pipeline.
• If one or more deny expressions was specified but no allow expressions, allow this request to pass through (because none of the deny expressions matched it).
• The request will be rejected with a "Forbidden" HTTP response.

This Valve may be attached to any Container, depending on the granularity of the filtering you wish to perform.

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2006/03/07 22:30:07 $

Author:

Craig R. McClanahan

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected String	allow The comma-delimited set of allow expressions.
protected Pattern[]	allows The set of allow regular expressions we will evaluate.
protected Pattern[]	denies The set of deny regular expressions we will evaluate.
protected String	deny The comma-delimited set of deny expressions.

Fields inherited from class org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

container, controller, debug, domain, lifecycle, log, next, oname, rb, started

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Lifecycle

AFTER_START_EVENT, AFTER_STOP_EVENT, BEFORE_START_EVENT, BEFORE_STOP_EVENT, INIT_EVENT, START_EVENT, STOP_EVENT

Fields inherited from interface org.glassfish.web.valve.GlassFishValve

END_PIPELINE, INVOKE_NEXT

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RequestFilterValve()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getAllow() Return a comma-delimited set of the allow expressions configured for this Valve, if any; otherwise, return null.
String	getDeny() Return a comma-delimited set of the deny expressions configured for this Valve, if any; otherwise, return null.
String	getInfo() Return descriptive information about this Valve implementation.
abstract int	invoke(Request request, Response response) Extract the desired request property, and pass it (along with the specified request and response objects) to the protected process() method to perform the actual filtering.
protected Pattern[]	precalculate(String list) Return an array of regular expression objects initialized from the specified argument, which must be null or a comma-delimited list of regular expression patterns.
protected int	process(String property, Request request, Response response) Perform the filtering that has been configured for this Valve, matching against the specified request property.
void	setAllow(String allow) Set the comma-delimited set of the allow expressions configured for this Valve, if any.
void	setDeny(String deny) Set the comma-delimited set of the deny expressions configured for this Valve, if any.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

addLifecycleListener, backgroundProcess, createObjectName, event, findLifecycleListeners, getContainer, getController, getDebug, getDomain, getNext, getObjectName, getParentName, invoke, isStarted, postInvoke, removeLifecycleListener, setContainer, setController, setDebug, setNext, setObjectName, start, stop

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

allow

protected String allow

The comma-delimited set of allow expressions.

allows

protected Pattern[] allows

The set of allow regular expressions we will evaluate.

denies

protected Pattern[] denies

The set of deny regular expressions we will evaluate.

deny

protected String deny

The comma-delimited set of deny expressions.

Constructor Detail

RequestFilterValve

public RequestFilterValve()

Method Detail

getAllow

public String getAllow()

Return a comma-delimited set of the allow expressions configured for this Valve, if any; otherwise, return null.

setAllow

public void setAllow(String allow)

Set the comma-delimited set of the allow expressions configured for this Valve, if any.

Parameters:

allow - The new set of allow expressions

getDeny

public String getDeny()

Return a comma-delimited set of the deny expressions configured for this Valve, if any; otherwise, return null.

setDeny

public void setDeny(String deny)

Set the comma-delimited set of the deny expressions configured for this Valve, if any.

Parameters:

deny - The new set of deny expressions

getInfo

public String getInfo()

Return descriptive information about this Valve implementation.

Specified by:

getInfo in interface Valve

Specified by:

getInfo in interface GlassFishValve

Overrides:

getInfo in class ValveBase

invoke

public abstract int invoke(Request request,
                           Response response)
                    throws IOException,
                           javax.servlet.ServletException

Extract the desired request property, and pass it (along with the specified request and response objects) to the protected process() method to perform the actual filtering. This method must be implemented by a concrete subclass.

Specified by:

invoke in interface GlassFishValve

Specified by:

invoke in class ValveBase

Parameters:

request - The servlet request to be processed

response - The servlet response to be created

Returns:

INVOKE_NEXT or END_PIPELINE

Throws:

IOException - if an input/output error occurs

javax.servlet.ServletException - if a servlet error occurs

precalculate

protected Pattern[] precalculate(String list)

Return an array of regular expression objects initialized from the specified argument, which must be null or a comma-delimited list of regular expression patterns.

Parameters:

list - The comma-separated list of patterns

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if one of the patterns has invalid syntax

process

protected int process(String property,
                      Request request,
                      Response response)
               throws IOException,
                      javax.servlet.ServletException

Perform the filtering that has been configured for this Valve, matching against the specified request property.

Parameters:

property - The request property on which to filter

request - The servlet request to be processed

response - The servlet response to be processed

Throws:

IOException - if an input/output error occurs

javax.servlet.ServletException - if a servlet error occurs