Spring: accessing HttpServletRequest in a custom ViewResolver

Question

Hi. I would like to access an HttpServletRequest object of the originating request in a custom InternalResourceViewResolver based resolver. Is there any simple way to do this? I am using Spring 2.5 here.

Answer 1

The ViewResolver interface is not supplied with the current request, and so neither do the implementations of it .

However, you do have the option of fetching the current request from the RequestContextHolder, which uses thread-bound variables to store things like the request, but it's not pretty:

((ServletRequestAttributes)RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes()).getRequest();