In (embedded) Jetty, I'm trying to use a ResourceHandler to serve static files and a custom handler to respond to dynamic requests. Based on this page I have a setup that looks like this:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
Server server = new Server();
SelectChannelConnector connector = new SelectChannelConnector();
connector.setPort(8080);
server.addConnector(connector);
ResourceHandler resource_handler = new ResourceHandler();
resource_handler.setDirectoriesListed(false);
resource_handler.setResourceBase(".");
HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList();
handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[] { resource_handler, new MyHandler() });
server.setHandler(handlers);
server.start();
server.join();
}
This works in the sense that it correctly:
- Serves up static content from files in my public directory, like /public/style.css
- Runs MyHandler on paths that aren't present in the public directory, like /foo/bar
The problem is that I get a 403 in response to the root path (/). MyHandler is capable of responding to those requests, but they get intercepted by the ResourceHandler first. Is there any way to force Jetty to send / requests to MyHandler?
Thanks in advance!
Jetty tries each Handler sequentially until one of the handlers calls setHandled(true) on the request. Not sure why ResourceHandler doesn't do this for "/".
My solution was to reverse the order in which you list the handlers so that yours is called first. Then check for the special case "/" in the URL. If you'd like to pass the request on to the ResourceHandler, simply return without declaring the request as handled.
Declare the order of handlers like this:
Server server = new Server(8080);
CustomHandler default = new CustomHandler();
default.setServer(server);
ResourceHandler files = new ResourceHandler();
files.setServer(server);
files.setResourceBase("./path/to/resources");
HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList();
handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[] {default, files});
server.setHandler(handlers);
server.start();
server.join();
And define CustomHandler's handle method like this:
public void handle(String target, Request baseRequest, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException
{
if(!request.getRequestURI().equals("/")){
return;
}
// Do Stuff...
baseRequest.setHandled(true);
return;
}
I agree it would be most elegant to have ResourceHandler simply yield on "/" instead of handling the response with a 403.
My solution:
- put MyHandler on a differnt context path than "/" e.g. "/index"
- use a rewrite rule to intercept calls to "/" and redirect them to "/index"
The code I use looks like this:
RewriteHandler rewriteHandler = new RewriteHandler();
rewriteHandler.setRewriteRequestURI(true);
rewriteHandler.setRewritePathInfo(false);
rewriteHandler.setOriginalPathAttribute("requestedPath");
RewriteRegexRule rewriteIndex = new RewriteRegexRule();
rewriteIndex.setRegex("^/$");
rewriteIndex.setReplacement("/index.html");
rewriteHandler.addRule(rewriteIndex);
rewriteHandler.setHandler(rootHandlerCollection);
server.setHandler(rewriteHandler);
The regex ensures to only match the exact path, so that "/whatever" is still first handled by the ResourceHandler.