why there is not a holder class for Response like RequestContextHolder

Question

Why Spring does not have a class like RequestContextHolder for HttpServletResponse? There are some cases I need to access response object. For example spring se

Answer 1

I ended up with a simple filter.

public class ResponseContextHolderFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {

   @Override
   protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain) throws ServletException, IOException {
      try {
         RequestAndResponseContextHolder.response(response);
      } finally {
         filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
      }
   }
}


public class RequestAndResponseContextHolder {

   public static final String RESPONSE_NAME_AT_ATTRIBUTES =
      ServletRequestAttributes.class.getName() + ".ATTRIBUTE_NAME";


   public static HttpServletResponse response() {
      RequestAttributes requestAttributes = RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes();
      HttpServletResponse response = null;
      if(requestAttributes != null) {
         ServletRequestAttributes servletRequestAttributes = (ServletRequestAttributes) requestAttributes;
         response = (HttpServletResponse) servletRequestAttributes.getAttribute(RESPONSE_NAME_AT_ATTRIBUTES, RequestAttributes.SCOPE_REQUEST);
      }
      return response;
   }

   public static HttpServletRequest request() {
      RequestAttributes requestAttributes = RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes();
      HttpServletRequest request = null;
      if(requestAttributes != null) {
         ServletRequestAttributes servletRequestAttributes = (ServletRequestAttributes) requestAttributes;
         request = servletRequestAttributes.getRequest();
      }
      return request;
   }

   public static void response(HttpServletResponse response) {
      RequestAttributes requestAttributes = RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes();

      if(requestAttributes != null) {
         ServletRequestAttributes servletRequestAttributes = (ServletRequestAttributes) requestAttributes;
         servletRequestAttributes.setAttribute(RESPONSE_NAME_AT_ATTRIBUTES, response, RequestAttributes.SCOPE_REQUEST);
      }
   }
}

Answer 2

If you do not find a better solution, then you can extend the UsernameAndPasswordAuthenticationFiter http://docs.spring.io/autorepo/docs/spring-security/3.0.x/apidocs/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.html (or the AuthenticationFilter you use instead) there you have Access to the Request and Response.