Custom filters in multiple files

[Bartłomiej Chmielewski]

Hi, I want to migrate my application from Spring Security 2 to version 3 because of better API. In fact, I've got trouble with custom filters.

In Spring Security 2.0 I can have multiple XML contexts with custom filters defined for example like:

  <bean id="myPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter"
        class="test.MyPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter">
    <security:custom-filter position="PRE_AUTH_FILTER"/>
    <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
    <property name="authenticationDetailsSource" ref="myPreDetailsSource"/>
  </bean>

where MyPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter extends AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter. In 3.0 the security:custom-filter element was moved to security:http element.

Is there any solution to configure custom filters in multiple files in 3.0 version?

[spitbag]

I too have this same problem. Must a <custom-filter> element exist only inside a <http> element? The schema suggests so, but just wish to confirm.

[Luke Taylor]

Yes, it has to go inside the <http> element. Otherwise (amongst other things) we would not be able to support multiple filter chains in the namespace.