Which about filters are true? Head first servlet question 5 page 735

[Thibault Delor]

Hello,

i'm supicious about a question in Head First Servlets and JSP. This is the question :

Which about filters are true? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Filters may be used to create request or response wrappers.

B. Wrappers may be used to create request or response filters.

C. Unlike servlets, all filter initialization code should be placed ithe constructor since there is no init() method.

D. Filters support an initialization mechanism that includes an init() method that is guaranteed to be called before the filter is used to handle requests.

E. A filter’s doFilter() method must call doFilter() on the input FilterChain object in order to ensure that all filters have a chance to execute.

F. When calling doFilter() on the input FilterChain, a filter’s doFilter() method must pass in the same ServletRequest and ServletResponse objects that were passed into it.

G. A filter’s doFilter() may block further request processing

Good answers are A, D and G.
E is wrong because "-Option E is incorrect because calling doFilter() is not necessary if a filter wishes to block further request processing."

That's where i'm not ok. If a filter "block further request processing" so we don't "ensure that all filters have a chance to execute".

Do i miss something? Is my bad english playing trick on me?

Thank you!

[avi sinha]

i think its Filter's doFilter not FilterChain's doFilter()

avi sinha

[Hassan Ebied]

E. A filter’s doFilter() method must call doFilter() on the input FilterChain object in order to ensure that all filters have a chance to execute.

In doFilter method you don't need to call doFilter of filterChain object if you don't want to proceed with upcoming filters in the chain.
For example if as per you filter logic there was some logical error in the data passed in the request and you want to forward or redirct to some error page rather than proceeding the request or processing the upcoming filters in the chain .

SO Option E is incorrect.

I wish I could help you .... Goood Luck

[Thibault Delor]

Hassan Ebied, i totally agree on the fact that YOU CAN stop the processing of upcoming filters but that's not the questions or rather what i have understand. If i reword the answer E with my words that give :
"If you really really want that all filters have a chance to execute, you have to call doFilter() on FilterChain"
And so for me it's right, doFilters' goal is to proceed nexts filters! no?

[Hassan Ebied]

And so for me it's right, doFilters' goal is to proceed nexts filters! no?.

doFilter method goal is not actually to proceed with next filters , its mission in life is do some certain logic before proceeding the request by the container and everything is fine then it will call doFilter on filterChain object to let the container either to to proceed with the request of the queue of filters is empty or to select the next filter from the chain to be processed.

[Thibault Delor]

Hassan Ebied wrote:And so for me it's right, doFilters' goal is to proceed nexts filters! no?.

doFilter method goal is not actually to proceed with next filters , its mission in life is do some certain logic before proceeding the request by the container and everything is fine then it will call doFilter on filterChain object to let the container either to to proceed with the request of the queue of filters is empty or to select the next filter from the chain to be processed.

I spoke about dofilter method of FilterChain in this sentence :And so for me it's right, doFilters' goal is to proceed nexts filters! no?.
When i said "next filters" it means "next filter if there's one, else the servlet"

If you don't call dofilter method of FilterChain, next filters won't be executed, so we can say that in order to ensure that all filters have a chance to execute you must call doFilter() on the input FilterChain object, no???

[Michal Przysucha]

Same problem. I read this 15 times and I think it just should be read like this:

A filter’s doFilter() method must DO X

where:

DO X is "call doFilter() on the input FilterChain object in order to ensure that all filters have a chance to execute"

But not like this:

A filter’s doFilter() method must DO X in order to ensure Y

where:

DO X is "call doFilter() on the input FilterChain object"
Y is "that all filters have a chance to execute"

It's the only way I can explain it to myself.

[Bear Bibeault]

"Bad Boy Boogie", please check your private messages for an important administrative matter.

[Walid Abd Elsalam]

I think option E should be considered a correct answer.