Using ContentCachingRequestWrapper causes Empty Parameters Map

Question

I have implemented a Filter, in which I want to read the content of request first for some checks and then I would like to go on.

But the problem is, that in the fol

Answer 1

ContentCachingRequestWrapper doesnt work that way and has some limitations. Only POST request and content type should be application/x-www-form-urlencoded as far as I remember. If this fits for you, here's what you should do:

final HttpServletRequest req = (HttpServletRequest) request;
HttpServletRequest servletRequest = new ContentCachingRequestWrapper(req);
servletRequest.getParameterMap(); // needed for caching!!

String read = ByteSource.wrap(servletRequest.getContentAsByteArray())
    .asCharSource(StandardCharsets.UTF_8).read(); // Please note that we're not touching input stream!!

Hope this helps.