We saw in the last tutorial that Servlet 3.0 annotation can be scanned by using @ServletComponentScan. Sometimes, however, that will not be possible to register Servlet Components by using Servlet 3.0 annotations and we would instead like to register them to the container programmatically. For example a library Servlet (or any component) is needed to be registered but we cannot modify the source code to add @WebServlet annotation.
Rather than working directly with servlet API like ServletContext#addServlet, Spring provides following classes to register servlet components as beans.
By registering above beans with Spring context, will automatically register the underlying Servlet component to the Servlet Container. The Servlet component as a bean will also have all advantages which a Spring bean does, for example we can inject configuration or dependencies into them.
Example
We are going to modify our last tutorial example to demonstrate how to use above registration bean classes.
A Servlet component
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
@Override
protected void doGet (HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter();
writer.println("response from servlet ");
}
}
Registering Servlet using ServletRegistrationBean
@SpringBootApplication
public class Main {
.............
@Bean
ServletRegistrationBean myServletRegistration () {
ServletRegistrationBean srb = new ServletRegistrationBean();
srb.setServlet(new MyServlet());
srb.setUrlMappings(Arrays.asList("/path2/*"));
return srb;
}
.............
}
A Filter component
public class MyFilter implements Filter {
@Override
public void init (FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
}
@Override
public void doFilter (ServletRequest request,
ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
String url = request instanceof HttpServletRequest ?
((HttpServletRequest) request).getRequestURL().toString() : "N/A";
System.out.println("from filter, processing url: " + url);
chain.doFilter(request, response);
}
@Override
public void destroy () {
}
}
Registering Filter using FilterRegistrationBean
@SpringBootApplication
public class Main {
.............
@Bean
FilterRegistrationBean myFilterRegistration () {
FilterRegistrationBean frb = new FilterRegistrationBean();
frb.setFilter(new MyFilter());
frb.setUrlPatterns(Arrays.asList("/*"));
return frb;
}
.............
}
A Filter component
public class MyServletListener implements ServletContextListener {
@Override
public void contextInitialized (ServletContextEvent sce) {
System.out.println("from ServletContextListener: " +
" context initialized");
}
@Override
public void contextDestroyed (ServletContextEvent sce) {
}
}
Registering Web Listener using ServletListenerRegistrationBean
@SpringBootApplication
public class Main {
.............
@Bean
ServletListenerRegistrationBean<ServletContextListener> myServletListener () {
ServletListenerRegistrationBean<ServletContextListener> srb =
new ServletListenerRegistrationBean<>();
srb.setListener(new MyServletListener());
return srb;
}
}
A Spring Controller
@Controller
public class MyController {
@RequestMapping("/*")
@ResponseBody
public String handler () {
return "response form spring controller method";
}
}
The output of this example is exactly same as the last example.
Example Project
Dependencies and Technologies Used: - Spring Boot 1.4.4.RELEASE
Corresponding Spring Version 4.3.6.RELEASE - spring-boot-starter-web : Starter for building web, including RESTful, applications using Spring
MVC. Uses Tomcat as the default embedded container.
- JDK 1.8
- Maven 3.3.9
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