Package org.forgerock.openig.filter

Class DataPreservationFilter

java.lang.Object

org.forgerock.openig.filter.DataPreservationFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Filter

public class DataPreservationFilter
extends Object
implements Filter

The DataPreservationFilter supports preserving POSTed data from a request that triggers a login redirect. The entity data from the request is preserved in the http session before redirecting to authentication. If a subsequent GET request is seen, that matched the original request path and there is preserved data, an empty self-submitting form is returned to the user-agent. Using a self-posting form for the last step, rather than just transforming the GET into a POST, ensures that user-agent is generating the POST. Using an empty self-posting form, rather than the original data, ensures that there is no opportunity for the data to be manipulated since preserving the original request and no data validation/manipulation is required within the filter. When this empty POST request is processed, the entity is replaced with the preserved data and the request flows through to the next filter.

 {
    "type": "DataPreservationFilter",
    "config": {
      "noJavaScriptMessage:   String              [OPTIONAL - the message to show when the user-agent does
                                                              not support JavaScript. JavaScript is used to
                                                              replay the preserved FORM data from the original
                                                              POST that triggered a login redirect.
                                                              Defaults to {@link #NO_JAVASCRIPT_MESSAGE_DEFAULT }
      "maxContentLength":     Integer             [OPTIONAL - determine how big a POST request, in bytes, based
                                                              on the Content-Length header, that we are willing to
                                                              preserve in this filter. Repeated requests to a route
                                                              with this filter, that contain large payloads, that
                                                              also trigger an authentication redirect, could use up
                                                              a lot of memory/processing without some control over
                                                              the maximum size we are willing to preserve.
                                                              Defaults to {@link #MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH_DEFAULT }.]
      "lifetime":             Duration            [OPTIONAL - determines how long a preserved POST item will survive
                                                              in the session, should more than one preservation be
                                                              occurring during the lifetime of a session. Defaults to
                                                              {@link #LIFETIME_DURATION_DEFAULT}.]
    }
  }
 
 

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	DataPreservationFilter.Heaplet	Create a DataPreservationFilter heap object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Promise<Response,NeverThrowsException>	filter(Context context, Request request, Handler next)	Filters the request and/or response of an exchange.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Details

filter

public Promise<Response,NeverThrowsException> filter(Context context,
 Request request,
 Handler next)

Description copied from interface: Filter

Filters the request and/or response of an exchange. To pass the request to the next filter or handler in the chain, the filter calls next.handle(context, request).

This method may elect not to pass the request to the next filter or handler, and instead handle the request itself. It can achieve this by merely avoiding a call to next.handle(context, request) and creating its own response object. The filter is also at liberty to replace a response with another of its own by intercepting the response returned by the next handler.

Specified by:

filter in interface Filter

Parameters:

context - The request context.

request - The request.

next - The next filter or handler in the chain to handle the request.

Returns:

A Promise representing the response to be returned to the client.