Servlet filters provide a powerful mechanism to intercept queries and perform clever actions such as profiling, monitoring, content generation, and so on. They work exactly like any normal Java servlet filter and JIRA provides the ServletFilterPluginModule to add them using plugins. In this recipe, we will learn about how to use filters to intercept certain queries to JIRA and how we can utilize them!
As with other servlet plugin modules, a servlet-filter plugin module also has a unique key and a class associated with it. The name attribute holds the human-readable name of the filter and weight indicates the order in which the filter will be placed in the filter chain. The higher the weight, the lower the filter's position.
There is another important attribute location that denotes the position of the filter in the application's filter chain. There are four possible...