How to conditionally enable/disable filter in web.xml

Question

I'm using Spring MVC. I have a web.xml and a myapp.xml. In the myapp.xml I'm taking advantage of the spring beans profile. So, I've got two profiles dev and test. Each has different beans that get initiated based on the environment variable.

I'm wondering if something similar can be done in web.xml? In web.xml I've got the following which I only want to enable when the environment variable is test

<filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurity</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurity</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

How can I do this?

Answer 1

In your case you already use DelegatingFilterProxy that delegates actual processing to a Spring bean named springSecurity.

So, you need to replace your Spring Security configuration with a no-op implementation of Filter declared as springSecurity in your dev profile.