How can I read an HttpServletReponses output stream?

Question

I want to make a Servlet filter that will read the contents of the Response after it\'s been processed and completed and return that information in XML or PDF or whatever.

Answer 1

Add this to the filter java file.

static class MyHttpServletResponseWrapper 
  extends HttpServletResponseWrapper {

  private StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(BUFFER_SIZE);

  public MyHttpServletResponseWrapper(HttpServletResponse response) {
    super(response);
  }

  public PrintWriter getWriter() throws IOException {
    return new PrintWriter(sw);
  }

  public ServletOutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }

  public String toString() {
    return sw.toString();
  }
}

Use the follow code:

HttpServletResponse httpResponse = (HttpServletResponse) response;
MyHttpServletResponseWrapper wrapper = 
  new MyHttpServletResponseWrapper(httpResponse);

chain.doFilter(request, wrapper);

String content = wrapper.toString();

The content variable now has the output stream. You can also do it for binary content.