Http Servlet request lose params from POST body after read it once

Question

I\'m trying to accessing two http request parameters in a Java Servlet filter, nothing new here, but was surprised to find that the parameters have already been consumed! Be

Answer 1

The method getContentAsByteArray() of the Spring class ContentCachingRequestWrapper reads the body multiple times, but the methods getInputStream() and getReader() of the same class do not read the body multiple times:

"This class caches the request body by consuming the InputStream. If we read the InputStream in one of the filters, then other subsequent filters in the filter chain can't read it anymore. Because of this limitation, this class is not suitable in all situations."

In my case more general solution that solved this problem was to add following three classes to my Spring boot project (and the required dependencies to the pom file):

CachedBodyHttpServletRequest.java:

public class CachedBodyHttpServletRequest extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {

    private byte[] cachedBody;

    public CachedBodyHttpServletRequest(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
        super(request);
        InputStream requestInputStream = request.getInputStream();
        this.cachedBody = StreamUtils.copyToByteArray(requestInputStream);
    }

    @Override
    public ServletInputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
        return new CachedBodyServletInputStream(this.cachedBody);
    }

    @Override
    public BufferedReader getReader() throws IOException {
        // Create a reader from cachedContent
        // and return it
        ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(this.cachedBody);
        return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(byteArrayInputStream));
    }
}

CachedBodyServletInputStream.java:

public class CachedBodyServletInputStream extends ServletInputStream {

    private InputStream cachedBodyInputStream;

    public CachedBodyServletInputStream(byte[] cachedBody) {
        this.cachedBodyInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(cachedBody);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isFinished() {
        try {
            return cachedBodyInputStream.available() == 0;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isReady() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void setReadListener(ReadListener readListener) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    @Override
    public int read() throws IOException {
        return cachedBodyInputStream.read();
    }
}

ContentCachingFilter.java:

@Order(value = Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
@Component
@WebFilter(filterName = "ContentCachingFilter", urlPatterns = "/*")
public class ContentCachingFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {

    @Override
    protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse, FilterChain filterChain) throws ServletException, IOException {
        System.out.println("IN  ContentCachingFilter ");
        CachedBodyHttpServletRequest cachedBodyHttpServletRequest = new CachedBodyHttpServletRequest(httpServletRequest);
        filterChain.doFilter(cachedBodyHttpServletRequest, httpServletResponse);
    }
}

I also added the following dependencies to pom:

    org.springframework
    spring-webmvc
    5.2.0.RELEASE


    javax.servlet
    javax.servlet-api
    4.0.1


    com.fasterxml.jackson.core
    jackson-databind
    2.10.0

A tuturial and full source code is located here: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-reading-httpservletrequest-multiple-times