How to add a filter class in Spring Boot?

Question

I wonder, if there is any annotation for a Filter class (for web applications) in Spring Boot? Perhaps @Filter?

I want to add a custom filter in my project.

The Spring Boot Reference Guide mentioned about FilterRegistrationBean, but I am not sure how to use it.

Answer 1

If you want to setup a third-party filter you can use FilterRegistrationBean. For example the equivalent of web.xml

<filter>
     <filter-name>SomeFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>com.somecompany.SomeFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>SomeFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/url/*</url-pattern>
    <init-param>
       <param-name>paramName</param-name>
       <param-value>paramValue</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter-mapping>

These will be the two beans in your @Configuration file

@Bean
public FilterRegistrationBean someFilterRegistration() {

    FilterRegistrationBean registration = new FilterRegistrationBean();
    registration.setFilter(someFilter());
    registration.addUrlPatterns("/url/*");
    registration.addInitParameter("paramName", "paramValue");
    registration.setName("someFilter");
    registration.setOrder(1);
    return registration;
} 

public Filter someFilter() {
    return new SomeFilter();
}

The above was tested with spring-boot 1.2.3