I am having a problem setting up the filter - the filter I have defined in web.xml looks like this
<filter>
<filter-name>Log</filter-name>
<filter-class>test.log</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Log</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
But I am getting the following error -
SEVERE: Exception starting filter Log
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: test.log
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1711)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1556)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:532)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:514)
at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:133)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:382)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:103)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4650)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5306)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
I have the class defined but for some reason I am getting the Classnotfoundexcetion. Can someone help me out?
EDIT ---
I have a package called test and a class called log.
package test;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
// Implements Filter class
public class log implements Filter {
public void init(FilterConfig config) {
}
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request,
ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain)
throws java.io.IOException, ServletException {
// Get the IP address of client machine.
String ipAddress = request.getRemoteAddr();
// Log the IP address and current timestamp.
System.out.println("IP "+ ipAddress + ", Time "
+ new Date().toString());
// Pass request back down the filter chain
chain.doFilter(request,response);
}
public void destroy( ){
/* Called before the Filter instance is removed
from service by the web container*/
}
}
Thank You,
The filter-class parameter needs to be a Java class that should implement the Filter interface. Can you check if that's the case with you?
Check this example for guidance:
http://viralpatel.net/blogs/tutorial-java-servlet-filter-example-using-eclipse-apache-tomcat/
From the above link:
<filter>
<filter-name>LogFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>
net.viralpatel.servlet.filters.LogFilter
</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>test-param</param-name>
<param-value>This parameter is for testing.</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>LogFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
public class LogFilter implements Filter {
public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res,
FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {...
}
}