org.apache.sling.api.servlets

Class SlingAllMethodsServlet

java.lang.Object

javax.servlet.GenericServlet

org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet

org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingAllMethodsServlet

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, javax.servlet.Servlet, javax.servlet.ServletConfig

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractAccessPostServlet, AbstractGetAclServlet

public class SlingAllMethodsServlet
extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet

Helper base class for data modifying Servlets used in Sling. This class extends the SlingSafeMethodsServlet by support for the POST, PUT and DELETE methods.

Implementors note: The methods in this class are all declared to throw the exceptions according to the intentions of the Servlet API rather than throwing their Sling RuntimeException counter parts. This is done to easy the integration with traditional servlets.

See Also:

for more information on supporting more HTTP methods, Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SlingAllMethodsServlet()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected void	doDelete(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) Called by the mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) method to handle an HTTP DELETE request.
protected void	doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) Called by the mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) method to handle an HTTP POST request.
protected void	doPut(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) Called by the mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) method to handle an HTTP PUT request.
protected StringBuffer	getAllowedRequestMethods(Map<String,Method> declaredMethods) Helper method called by SlingSafeMethodsServlet.doOptions(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) to calculate the value of the Allow header sent as the response to the HTTP OPTIONS request.
protected boolean	isMethodValid(Method method, String className) Returns true if method is not null and the method is not defined in the class named by className.
protected boolean	mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) Tries to handle the request by calling a Java method implemented for the respective HTTP request method.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet

doGeneric, doGet, doHead, doOptions, doTrace, getServletInfo, handleMethodNotImplemented, service, service

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.GenericServlet

destroy, getInitParameter, getInitParameterNames, getServletConfig, getServletContext, getServletName, init, init, log, log

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SlingAllMethodsServlet

public SlingAllMethodsServlet()

Method Detail

doPost

protected void doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request,
                      SlingHttpServletResponse response)
               throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                      IOException

Called by the mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) method to handle an HTTP POST request.

This default implementation reports back to the client that the method is not supported.

Implementations of this class should overwrite this method with their implementation for the HTTP POST method support.

Parameters:

request - The HTTP request

response - The HTTP response

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - Not thrown by this implementation.

IOException - If the error status cannot be reported back to the client.

doPut

protected void doPut(SlingHttpServletRequest request,
                     SlingHttpServletResponse response)
              throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                     IOException

Called by the mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) method to handle an HTTP PUT request.

This default implementation reports back to the client that the method is not supported.

Implementations of this class should overwrite this method with their implementation for the HTTP PUT method support.

Parameters:

request - The HTTP request

response - The HTTP response

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - Not thrown by this implementation.

IOException - If the error status cannot be reported back to the client.

doDelete

protected void doDelete(SlingHttpServletRequest request,
                        SlingHttpServletResponse response)
                 throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                        IOException

Called by the mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) method to handle an HTTP DELETE request.

This default implementation reports back to the client that the method is not supported.

Implementations of this class should overwrite this method with their implementation for the HTTP DELETE method support.

Parameters:

request - The HTTP request

response - The HTTP response

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - Not thrown by this implementation.

IOException - If the error status cannot be reported back to the client.

mayService

protected boolean mayService(SlingHttpServletRequest request,
                             SlingHttpServletResponse response)
                      throws javax.servlet.ServletException,
                             IOException

Tries to handle the request by calling a Java method implemented for the respective HTTP request method.

This implementation first calls the base class implementation and only if the base class cannot dispatch will try to dispatch the supported methods POST, PUT and DELETE and returns true if any of these methods is requested. Otherwise false is just returned.

Overrides:

mayService in class SlingSafeMethodsServlet

Parameters:

request - The HTTP request

response - The HTTP response

Returns:

true if the requested method (request.getMethod()) is known. Otherwise false is returned.

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - Forwarded from any of the dispatched methods

IOException - Forwarded from any of the dispatched methods

getAllowedRequestMethods

protected StringBuffer getAllowedRequestMethods(Map<String,Method> declaredMethods)

Helper method called by SlingSafeMethodsServlet.doOptions(SlingHttpServletRequest, SlingHttpServletResponse) to calculate the value of the Allow header sent as the response to the HTTP OPTIONS request.

This implementation overwrites the base class implementation adding support for the POST, PUT and DELETE methods in addition to the methods returned by the base class implementation.

Overrides:

getAllowedRequestMethods in class SlingSafeMethodsServlet

Parameters:

declaredMethods - The public and protected methods declared in the extension of this class.

Returns:

A StringBuffer containing the list of HTTP methods supported.

isMethodValid

protected boolean isMethodValid(Method method,
                                String className)

Returns true if method is not null and the method is not defined in the class named by className.

This method may be used to make sure a method is actually overwritten and not just the default implementation.

Parameters:

method - The Method to check

className - The name of class assumed to contained the initial declaration of the method.

Returns:

true if method is not null and the methods declaring class is not the given class.