[FIXED] Spring Boot Adding Http Request Interceptors

Issue

What is the right way to add HttpRequest interceptors in spring boot application? What I want to do is log requests and responses for every http request.

Spring boot documentation does not cover this topic at all. (http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/)

I found some web samples on how to do the same with older versions of spring, but those work with applicationcontext.xml. Please help.

Solution

Since you're using Spring Boot, I assume you'd prefer to rely on Spring's auto configuration where possible. To add additional custom configuration like your interceptors, just provide a configuration or bean of WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.

Here's an example of a config class:

@Configuration
public class WebMvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

  @Autowired 
  HandlerInterceptor yourInjectedInterceptor;

  @Override
  public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
    registry.addInterceptor(...)
    ...
    registry.addInterceptor(getYourInterceptor()); 
    registry.addInterceptor(yourInjectedInterceptor);
    // next two should be avoid -- tightly coupled and not very testable
    registry.addInterceptor(new YourInterceptor());
    registry.addInterceptor(new HandlerInterceptor() {
        ...
    });
  }
}

NOTE do not annotate this with @EnableWebMvc, if you want to keep Spring Boots auto configuration for mvc.

Answered By - ikumen