FileDocCategorySizeDatePackage
RequestUtils.javaAPI DocExample1972Mon Jul 23 13:26:56 BST 2007org.apache.struts2

RequestUtils.java

/*
 * $Id: RequestUtils.java 471717 2006-11-06 12:50:18Z husted $
 *
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.struts2;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;


/**
 * Request handling utility class.
 */
public class RequestUtils {

    /**
     * Retrieves the current request servlet path.
     * Deals with differences between servlet specs (2.2 vs 2.3+)
     *
     * @param request the request
     * @return the servlet path
     */
    public static String getServletPath(HttpServletRequest request) {
        String servletPath = request.getServletPath();

        if (null != servletPath && !"".equals(servletPath)) {
            return servletPath;
        }

        String requestUri = request.getRequestURI();
        int startIndex = request.getContextPath().equals("") ? 0 : request.getContextPath().length();
        int endIndex = request.getPathInfo() == null ? requestUri.length() : requestUri.lastIndexOf(request.getPathInfo());

        if (startIndex > endIndex) { // this should not happen
            endIndex = startIndex;
        }

        return requestUri.substring(startIndex, endIndex);
    }

}