Spring MVC: Appropriate extension point for wrapping API Responses

Question

I have a simple REST API, build using Spring MVC @Controllers and @RequestMapping. I\'d like to start wrapping responses to provide additional with met

Answer 1

Here's the implementation I used:

public class MetadataInjectingReturnValueHandler implements HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler {

    private final HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler delegate;

    public MetadataInjectingReturnValueHandler(HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler delegate)
    {
        this.delegate = delegate;
    }
    @Override
    public boolean supportsReturnType(MethodParameter returnType) {
        return delegate.supportsReturnType(returnType);
    }

    @Override
    public void handleReturnValue(Object returnValue,
            MethodParameter returnType, ModelAndViewContainer mavContainer,
            NativeWebRequest webRequest) throws Exception {
        returnValue = wrapResult(returnValue); //Omitted
        delegate.handleReturnValue(returnValue, returnType, mavContainer, webRequest);
    }
}



@Component
public class MetadataInjectionFactoryBean implements InitializingBean {

    @Autowired
    private RequestMappingHandlerAdapter adapter;
    @Override
    public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
        HandlerMethodReturnValueHandlerComposite returnValueHandlers = adapter.getReturnValueHandlers();
        List<HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler> handlers = Lists.newArrayList(returnValueHandlers.getHandlers());
        decorateHandlers(handlers);
        adapter.setReturnValueHandlers(handlers);
    }
    private void decorateHandlers(List<HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler> handlers) {
        for (HandlerMethodReturnValueHandler handler : handlers) {
            if (handler instanceof RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor)
            {
                MetadataInjectingReturnValueHandler decorator = new MetadataInjectingReturnValueHandler(handler);
                int index = handlers.indexOf(handler);
                handlers.set(index, decorator);
                log.info("Metadata Injecting decorator wired up");
                break;
            }
        }       
    }

}