Intercepting Filter
Less than 1 minute
Intent
Provide pluggable filters to conduct necessary pre-processing and
post-processing to requests from a client to a target
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Applicability
Use the Intercepting Filter pattern when
- a system uses pre-processing or post-processing requests
- a system should do the authentication/ authorization/ logging or tracking of request and then pass the requests to corresponding handlers
- you want a modular approach to configuring pre-processing and post-processing schemes