CreateSessionFilter.java

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package org.granite.clustering;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**
 * This filter forces the creation of an HTTP session. Only useful in cluster
 * environments when sticky-session is enabled, in order to ensure that a client
 * will always use the same cluster node.
 * 
 * @author Franck WOLFF
 */
public class CreateSessionFilter implements Filter {

	public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException {
	}

	public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
		((HttpServletRequest)request).getSession(true);
		chain.doFilter(request, response);
	}

	public void destroy() {
	}
}