Question

I am embedding jetty into my app, and trying to work out how to add servlet filters (for cookie handling). The wiki and the javadoc’s dont make it very clear, what am I missing:

Server server = new Server(port);
ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
context.setContextPath("/");
FilterHolder f = new FilterHolder(new AuthorisationFilter());
context.addFilter(... f ...); // ?????
context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new TestServlet()), "/");

The only info I have found on this is a forum post suggesting the documentation on this needs to be improved.

Answer 1

Update: For Jetty version 9.2.2:

    Server server = new Server();

    // Note: if you don't want control over type of connector, etc. you can simply 
    // call new Server(<port>);
    ServerConnector connector = new ServerConnector(server);
    connector.setHost("0.0.0.0");
    connector.setPort(8085);
    // Setting the name allows you to serve different app contexts from different connectors.
    connector.setName("main");
    server.addConnector(connector);

    WebAppContext context = new WebAppContext();
    context.setContextPath("/");
    // For development within an IDE like Eclipse, you can directly point to the web.xml
    context.setWar("src/main/webapp");
    context.addFilter(MyFilter.class, "/", 1);

    HandlerCollection collection = new HandlerCollection();
    RequestLogHandler rlh = new RequestLogHandler();
    // Slf4j - who uses anything else?
    Slf4jRequestLog requestLog = new Slf4jRequestLog();
    requestLog.setExtended(false);
    rlh.setRequestLog(requestLog);
    collection.setHandlers(new Handler[] { context, rlh });
    server.setHandler(collection);

    try {
        server.start();
        server.join();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Google guava way
        throw Throwables.propagate(e);
    }

Original answer ===

If you don’t want to use web.xml then use this:

SocketConnector socketConnector = new SocketConnector();
socketConnector.setPort(7000); // Change to port you want
Server server.setConnectors(new Connector[] { socketConnector });

WebAppContext webapp = new WebAppContext();

webapp.setContextPath("/"); // For root
webapp.setWar("/"); // Appropriate file system path.

// Now you can use the various webapp.addFilter() methods
webapp.addFilter(MyFilter.class, "/test", 1); // Will serve request to /test.
// There are 3 different addFilter() variants.

// Bonus ... request logs.
RequestLogHandler logHandler = new RequestLogHandler();
NCSARequestLog requestLog = new NCSARequestLog("/tmp/jetty-yyyy_mm_dd.request.log");
requestLog.setRetainDays(90);
requestLog.setAppend(true);
requestLog.setExtended(false);
requestLog.setLogTimeZone("GMT");
logHandler.setRequestLog(requestLog);

logHandler.setHandler(webapp);

HandlerList handlerList = new HandlerList();
handlerList.addHandler(logHandler);

server.setHandler(handlerList);

server.start();

If you do want to use web.xml, instead of the addFilter() methods, just make sure you have a WEB-INF/web.xml in your webapp root path with the following xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
   PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
   "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>filterName</filter-name>
        <filter-class>com.x.y.z.FilterClass</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
        <filter-name>filterName</filter-name>
    </filter-mapping>
</web-app>