Perform request processing as required by this Valve.
An individual Valve MAY perform the following actions, in the specified order:
- Examine and/or modify the properties of the specified Request and Response.
- Examine the properties of the specified Request, completely generate the corresponding Response, and return control to the caller.
- Examine the properties of the specified Request and Response, wrap either or both of these objects to supplement their functionality, and pass them on.
- If the corresponding Response was not generated (and control was not returned, call the next Valve in the pipeline (if there is one) by executing
context.invokeNext()
. - Examine, but not modify, the properties of the resulting Response (which was created by a subsequently invoked Valve or Container).
A Valve MUST NOT do any of the following things:
- Change request properties that have already been used to direct the flow of processing control for this request (for instance, trying to change the virtual host to which a Request should be sent from a pipeline attached to a Host or Context in the standard implementation).
- Create a completed Response AND pass this Request and Response on to the next Valve in the pipeline.
- Consume bytes from the input stream associated with the Request, unless it is completely generating the response, or wrapping the request before passing it on.
- Modify the HTTP headers included with the Response after the
invokeNext()
method has returned. - Perform any actions on the output stream associated with the specified Response after the
invokeNext()
method has returned.
@param request The servlet request to be processed
@param response The servlet response to be created
@exception IOException if an input/output error occurs, or is thrownby a subsequently invoked Valve, Filter, or Servlet
@exception ServletException if a servlet error occurs, or is thrownby a subsequently invoked Valve, Filter, or Servlet
@return
INVOKE_NEXT
or
END_PIPELINE