Question

I am developing REST services with two types.

• before login no session token will be passed to HTTP header.
• after login session token will be passed in each request.

I dont want to include @HeaderParam in each and every REST method. I want to intercept it first and based on that I want to check the validity of session. Please let me know

1. how I can intercept based on headers in RESTEasy
2. How to avoid intercepting few methods

Thanks.

Answer 1

I solved this problem using PreProcessInterceptor

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface Securable {
  String header() default "session-token";
}

@Provider
@ServerInterceptor
public class ValidationInterceptor implements PreProcessInterceptor, AcceptedByMethod {

  @Context
  private HttpServletRequest servletRequest;

  @Override
  public boolean accept(Class clazz, Method method) {
    return method.isAnnotationPresent(Securable.class);
  }

  @Override
  public ServerResponse preProcess(HttpRequest httpRequest, ResourceMethod resourceMethod) throws Failure,
      WebApplicationException {

    Securable securable =  resourceMethod.getMethod().getAnnotation(Securable.class);
    String headerValue = servletRequest.getHeader(securable.header());

    if (headerValue == null){
      return (ServerResponse)Response.status(Status.BAD_REQUEST).entity("Invalid Session").build();
    }else{
      // Validatation logic goes here
    }

    return null;
  }
}

The annotation @Securable will be used on REST service which needs to be validated.

@Securable
@PUT
public Response updateUser(User user)