Seam custom filter called 8 times

[seamworker]

Hello there,

I have noticed my custom Seam filter extends from AbstractFilter(seam)  called 8 times which is equivalent to number of built-in Filters in SeamFilter implementation.

Please let me know how to avoid this. I just want to execute my filter within one of the built in seam filters. Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Srinivasan

[seamworker]

Anybody there?

[jeanluc]

I suspect something is wrong with the declaration. Post your filter source (you can remove any specific functionality, I'm primarily interested in the declarations and the flow).

[seamworker]

Here is the Custom Filter code:

import org.jboss.seam.web.AbstractFilter;

@Filter(within = "org.jboss.seam.web.exceptionFilter")
@Name("ivUserAuthenticationFilter")
@Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION)
@Startup
@BypassInterceptors
public class UserAuthenticationFilter extends AbstractFilter{

    
    public void doFilter(final ServletRequest request, final ServletResponse response, final FilterChain chain)
            throws IOException, ServletException
    {
         
               //business logic  

               chain.doFilter(request, response); //chain.doFilter(..) repeatedly calls the same method for 8 times
    }
}

Nothing else is written supporting this.
in Web.xml SeamFilter is configured to run for each request

 <filter>
    <filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

Please let me know if more information required. Thank you.

[jeanluc]

What happens if you change the within declaration to

@Filter(within = {"org.jboss.seam.web.authenticationFilter"})

?

That's what I use for several filters and they are only executed once per request.

[antibrumm.mfrey0.bluewin.ch]

Hi
i was just wondering if you have some pictures and other referenced objects in your html? Because i had a similar issue and in the end i found out that the filter was called on each request, which also includes images, js, css, etc. :)

Probalby its enough to restrict the filter with this ?

     public String getRegexUrlPattern() {
          return "(^/.*.seam)|(^/[0-9a-zA-Z]+$)";
     }

[cash1981]

Try adding in the doFilter method, at the beginning.

if (!(req instanceof HttpServletRequest)) {
            chain.doFilter(req, res);
            return;
}

or

if (HttpServletRequest.class.isAssignableFrom(request.getClass())) {
//your code here
}