HttpServletRequestX

Introduction

Extension for javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest. Gives easy access to Http 1.1 request accept and accept-* header. The accept header gives some convenience functions to know, what content type the client is able to accept. See w3.org

Using the javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper to wrap the real HttpServletRequest object.

Installation

See maven central

Usage

        import de.roughy.util.http.httpServletRequestX.HttpServletRequestX;
        import de.roughy.util.http.httpServletRequestX.accept.header.AcceptHeader;

        public void handleRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) {

            HttpServletRequestX httpServletRequestX = new HttpServletRequestX(request);

            AcceptHeader accept   = httpServletRequestX.getAccept();
            String acceptCharset  = httpServletRequestX.getAcceptCharset();
            String acceptEncoding = httpServletRequestX.getAcceptEncoding();
            String acceptLanguage = httpServletRequestX.getAcceptLanguage();

            if (accept.acceptHtml()) {

                renderHtml();

            } else if (accept.acceptJson()) {

                renderJson();

            } else {

                ... // handle the request otherwise

            }

        }