Intercept Hessian remote call to add information

Question

I suppose this might not be possible but just in case...

We have a frontend Java application that communicates with a (ours as well) backend application through Hessian. For logging and auditing purposes we need to pass the user_id of the User that is logged in (in the frontend) to the backend. An obvious solution would of course be to add a String parameter to all method calls but that's a lot of work and not very clean.

Would there be a way to intercept the call, decorate it with the user_id (retrieve from the Session) and on the backend to get that user_id (and then set it on ThreadLocal or such)?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '13 at 15:38

It was possible:

public class CustomHessionProxyFactoryBean extends HessianProxyFactoryBean {

public CustomHessionProxyFactoryBean() {
    setProxyFactory(new CustomHessianProxyFactory());
}

private static class CustomHessianProxyFactory extends HessianProxyFactory {

    @Override
    public Object create(Class<?> api, URL url, ClassLoader loader) {
        return Proxy.newProxyInstance(loader, new Class[] { api, HessianRemoteObject.class }, new CustomHessianProxy(url, this, api));
    }

    private static class CustomHessianProxy extends HessianProxy {

        protected CustomHessianProxy(URL url, HessianProxyFactory factory) {
            super(url, factory);
        }

        public CustomHessianProxy(URL url, HessianProxyFactory factory, Class<?> type) {
            super(url, factory, type);
        }

        @Override
        protected void addRequestHeaders(HessianConnection conn) {
            super.addRequestHeaders(conn);

            if(StringUtils.isNotBlank(SsoIdUtil.getThreadSsoId())){
                conn.addHeader("some_key", "some_value_from_threadlocal");
            }
        }
    }
}

}

Intercept Hessian remote call to add information

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