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Mike M. Lin
Mike M. Lin

Reputation: 10072

Can I respond to POST requests using Jetty's ResourceHandler?

Can I respond to POST requests using Jetty's ResourceHandler? If so, how?

For context, here's snippet configuring a file server using ResourceHandler from the Jetty tutorials:

public class FileServer
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        Server server = new Server();
        SelectChannelConnector connector = new SelectChannelConnector();
        connector.setPort(8080);
        server.addConnector(connector);

        ResourceHandler resource_handler = new ResourceHandler();
        resource_handler.setDirectoriesListed(true);
        resource_handler.setWelcomeFiles(new String[]{ "index.html" });

        resource_handler.setResourceBase(".");

        HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList();
        handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[] { resource_handler, new DefaultHandler() });
        server.setHandler(handlers);

        server.start();
        server.join();
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 764

Answers (1)

claus
claus

Reputation: 425

The ResourceHandler seems to only support GET request. This makes sense, as the ResourceHandler only serves static resources (files, directories). A POST input would be discarded anyway.

I find it hard to make up a scenario, where one would need the ResourceHandler to reply to POST requests, but if you really want to achieve this, you could write your own Handler that wraps around the ResourceHandler and calls the GET methods for POST Requests. Some hints on how to do this can be found here: http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/writing-custom-handlers.html#passing-request-and-response

Upvotes: 2

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