How to use Jersey interceptors to get request body

Question

I am using REST-Jersey in my project. All the POST data is send in JSON format and unmarshalled at server-side into respective beans. Something like this:

Sending request to server:

    $('a#sayHelloPost').click(function(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        var mangaData = {
            title:'Bleach',
            author:'Kubo Tite'
        }
        var formData=JSON.stringify(mangaData);
        console.log(formData);
        $.ajax({
                url:'rest/cred/sayposthello',
                type: 'POST',
                data: formData,
                dataType: 'json',
                contentType:'application/json'
        })
});

Payload:

{"title":"Bleach","author":"Kubo Tite"}

Server-end:

@POST
@Path("/sayposthello")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response sayPostHello(MangaBean mb){
    System.out.println(mb);
    return Response.status(200).build();
}

MangaBean:

public class MangaBean {
    private String title;
    private String author;
    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "MangaBean [title=" + title + ", author=" + author + "]";
    }
    public String getTitle() {
        return title;
    }
    public void setTitle(String title) {
        this.title = title;
    }
    public String getAuthor() {
        return author;
    }
    public void setAuthor(String author) {
        this.author = author;
    }
}

Output on console:

MangaBean [title=Bleach, author=Kubo Tite]

I got the REST-interceptor implementation from here.

public class JerseyFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter{

    @Override
    public ContainerRequest filter(ContainerRequest req) {
        return req;
    }

} 

I want to access the payload(request body) in the interceptor. As the data is in JSON format, its not accessible as request parameters. Is there a way I can get the request body in the interceptor method? Please advice.

Answer 1

Here is one way you can implement, very similar to how Jersey implements its logging filters. You can read the entity and stick it back to the request, so you accidentally do not consume it in your filter.

import com.sun.jersey.api.container.ContainerException;
import com.sun.jersey.core.util.ReaderWriter;
import com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerRequest;
import com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerRequestFilter;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class JerseyFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {

    @Override
    public ContainerRequest filter(ContainerRequest request) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        InputStream in = request.getEntityInputStream();
        final StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            if (in.available() > 0) {
                ReaderWriter.writeTo(in, out);

                byte[] requestEntity = out.toByteArray();
                printEntity(b, requestEntity);

                request.setEntityInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(requestEntity));
            }
            return request;
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            throw new ContainerException(ex);
        }

    }

    private void printEntity(StringBuilder b, byte[] entity) throws IOException {
        if (entity.length == 0)
            return;
        b.append(new String(entity)).append("\n");
        System.out.println("#### Intercepted Entity ####");
        System.out.println(b.toString());
    }
}