Restlet Framework and Spring - Global filter

Question

I'm having a problem with RESTlet Framework configuration with Spring. I want to have one global filter for all requests and responses. I guess I can use Filter class and it's methods beforeHandle, afterHandle and setNext like this:

Filter.beforeHandle() -> Router -> Filter.afterHandle()

The problem is, that I'm using Spring configured RESTlet and I don't know if the regular Filter will work correctly with SpringRouter from org.restlet.ext.spring package. My current restlet configuration is as follows:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
    <bean id="root" class="org.restlet.ext.spring.SpringRouter">
        <property name="attachments">
            <map>
                <entry key="/login">
                    <bean class="org.restlet.ext.spring.SpringFinder">
                        <lookup-method name="create"
                                       bean="loginResource" />
                    </bean>
                </entry>
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

I'm thinking about adding a bean with id root and class that extends class Filter, and pass to it as property next a bean with id router (which currently is called root). What do you think about this solution?

Answer 1

Mixing Restlet classes from the Spring extension with other one shouldn't be an issue. Spring* classes only provide additional configurability.