Http Servlet request lose params from POST body after read it once

Question

I\'m trying to accessing two http request parameters in a Java Servlet filter, nothing new here, but was surprised to find that the parameters have already been consumed! Be

Answer 1

I found good solution for any format of request body. I tested for application/x-www-form-urlencoded and application/json both worked very well. Problem of ContentCachingRequestWrapper that is designed only for x-www-form-urlencoded request body, but not work with e.g. json. I found solution for json link. It had trouble that it didn't support x-www-form-urlencoded. I joined both in my code:

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.springframework.web.util.ContentCachingRequestWrapper;

import javax.servlet.ReadListener;
import javax.servlet.ServletInputStream;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class MyContentCachingRequestWrapper extends ContentCachingRequestWrapper {

    private byte[] body;

    public MyContentCachingRequestWrapper(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
        super(request);
        super.getParameterMap(); // init cache in ContentCachingRequestWrapper
        body = super.getContentAsByteArray(); // first option for application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        if (body.length == 0) {
            body = IOUtils.toByteArray(super.getInputStream()); // second option for other body formats
        }
    }

    public byte[] getBody() {
        return body;
    }

    @Override
    public ServletInputStream getInputStream() {
        return new RequestCachingInputStream(body);
    }

    @Override
    public BufferedReader getReader() throws IOException {
        return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getInputStream(), getCharacterEncoding()));
    }

    private static class RequestCachingInputStream extends ServletInputStream {

        private final ByteArrayInputStream inputStream;

        public RequestCachingInputStream(byte[] bytes) {
            inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
        }

        @Override
        public int read() throws IOException {
            return inputStream.read();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isFinished() {
            return inputStream.available() == 0;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isReady() {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void setReadListener(ReadListener readlistener) {
        }

    }

}