Question

I wrote a filter that needs to be invoked every time a url on my site is accessed EXCEPT the CSS, JS, and IMAGE files. So in my definition I’d like to have something like:

<filter-mapping>
   <filter-name>myAuthorizationFilter</filter-name>
   <url-pattern>NOT /css && NOT /js && NOT /images</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Is there anyway to do this? The only documentation I can find has only /*

UPDATE:

I ended up using something similar to an answer provided by Mr.J4mes:

   private static Pattern excludeUrls = Pattern.compile("^.*/(css|js|images)/.*$", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
   private boolean isWorthyRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
       String url = request.getRequestURI().toString();
       Matcher m = excludeUrls.matcher(url);

       return (!m.matches());
   }

Answer 1

I think you can try this one:

@WebFilter(filterName = "myFilter", urlPatterns = {"*.xhtml"})
public class MyFilter implements Filter {

   @Override
   public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
            throws IOException, ServletException {
      String path = ((HttpServletRequest) request).getServletPath();

      if (excludeFromFilter(path)) chain.doFilter(request, response);
      else // do something
   }

   private boolean excludeFromFilter(String path) {
      if (path.startsWith("/javax.faces.resource")) return true; // add more page to exclude here
      else return false;
   }
}