Servlet Filter: How to get all the headers from servletRequest?

Question

Here is how my WebFilter looks like

@WebFilter("/rest/*")
public class AuthTokenValidatorFilter implements Filter {

    @Override
    public void init(final FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
    }

    @Override
    public void doFilter(final ServletRequest servletRequest, final ServletResponse servletResponse, final FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        final Enumeration<String> attributeNames = servletRequest.getAttributeNames();
        while (attributeNames.hasMoreElements()) {
            System.out.println("{attribute} " + servletRequest.getParameter(attributeNames.nextElement()));
        }

        final Enumeration<String> parameterNames = servletRequest.getParameterNames();
        while (parameterNames.hasMoreElements()) {
            System.out.println("{parameter} " + servletRequest.getParameter(parameterNames.nextElement()));
        }
        filterChain.doFilter(servletRequest, servletResponse);
    }

    @Override
    public void destroy() {
    }
}

I tried to find out online as to how to get values for HTTP headers coming from request.

I did not find anything, so I tried to enumerate on servletRequest.getAttributeNames() and servletRequest.getParameterNames() without knowing anything, but I do not get any headers.

Question
How can I get all the headers coming from the request?

Answer 1

Typecast ServletRequest into HttpServletRequest (only if ServletRequest request is an instanceof HttpServletRequest).

Then you can use HttpServletRequest.getHeader() and HttpServletRequest.getHeaderNames() method.

Something like this:

@Override
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
    HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest) request;
    Enumeration<String> headerNames = httpRequest.getHeaderNames();

    if (headerNames != null) {
            while (headerNames.hasMoreElements()) {
                    System.out.println("Header: " + httpRequest.getHeader(headerNames.nextElement()));
            }
    }

    //doFilter
    chain.doFilter(httpRequest, response);
}