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Using Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor with Spring Boot - Hello World example

In this post we develop a simple Spring Boot application with interceptors.
We use the interceptor to log the user activity. We will expose an API and then log the status of User interaction.

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This tutorial is explained in the below Youtube Video.


Lets Begin-

The project will be as follows-
Spring Boot Interceptor Tutorial
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

	<groupId>com.javainuse</groupId>
	<artifactId>springboot-interceptor</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1</version>
	<packaging>jar</packaging>

	<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
		<relativePath/>
	</parent>

	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
	</properties>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>


</project>
Next we define the LoggerInterceptor which implements the HandlerInterceptor.
The LoggerInterceptor will override the following methods-
  • preHandle() - This method is used to intercept the request before it is handed over to the handler method. If It turns a boolean value, true : continue the handler execution chain; false , stop the execution chain and return it.
  • postHandle() - This method is used to intercept the request after the handler execution, Here user can manipulate the ModelAndView object before render it to view page.
  • afterCompletion() - This is a HandlerInterceptor callback method called after the complete request has finished.




Define the class implementing the spring HandlerInterceptor interface as follows-
package com.javainuse.interceptor.config;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerInterceptor;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Component
public class LoggerInterceptor implements HandlerInterceptor {

	Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

	@Override
	public void afterCompletion(HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response, Object object, Exception arg3)
			throws Exception {
		log.info("Request is complete");
	}

	@Override
	public void postHandle(HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response, Object object, ModelAndView model)
			throws Exception {
		log.info("Handler execution is complete");
	}

	@Override
	public boolean preHandle(HttpServletRequest request,
			HttpServletResponse response, Object object) throws Exception {
		log.info("Before Handler execution");
		return true;
	}

}


Next we register the custom loggerInterceptor using the Spring WebMvcConfigurerAdapter class.
package com.javainuse.interceptor.config;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.InterceptorRegistry;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;

@Configuration
public class InterceptorConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

	@Autowired
	LoggerInterceptor logInterceptor;

	@Override
	public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
		registry.addInterceptor(logInterceptor);
	}
}
Finally we expose the LoggerController as follows-
package com.javainuse.interceptor.controller;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
public class LoggerController {

	Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

	@RequestMapping("/logger")
	public String executeLogger() {
		log.info("inside the executeLogger method");
		return "Hello World Logger Interceptor";
	}
}
Finally create the SpringBoot class annotated with @SpringBootApplication.
package com.javainuse.interceptor.config;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringBootHelloWorldApplication {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SpringApplication.run(SpringBootHelloWorldApplication.class, args);
	}
}

After running the application- go to http://localhost:8080/logger

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In the console we can see the request gets intercepted as follows-

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Spring Boot + Interceptors Hello World Example

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