Java tutorial
/* This file is part of Cyclos (www.cyclos.org). A project of the Social Trade Organisation (www.socialtrade.org). Cyclos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Cyclos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Cyclos; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ package nl.strohalm.cyclos.http; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.regex.Pattern; import javax.servlet.FilterChain; import javax.servlet.FilterConfig; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils; /** * Filter used to apply the correct character encoding * @author luis */ public class SanitizerFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter { private Pattern exclusionPattern = null; @Override public void destroy() { } @Override public void init(final FilterConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); String excluded = config.getInitParameter("exclusionPattern"); if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(excluded)) { excluded = StringUtils.deleteWhitespace(StringUtils.replace(excluded, "\n", "|")); if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(excluded)) { exclusionPattern = Pattern.compile(excluded); } } } @Override protected void execute(final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse response, final FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { HttpServletRequest httpRequest = request; if (mustSanitize(httpRequest)) { httpRequest = new SanitizedHttpServletRequest(request); } chain.doFilter(httpRequest, response); } private boolean mustSanitize(final HttpServletRequest request) { return exclusionPattern != null && request.getPathInfo() != null && !exclusionPattern.matcher(request.getPathInfo()).matches(); } }