set cache-control header on certain jersey resources via annotation and resourcefilter

[Malte]

As for IE10, IE11 and Edge Browsers all response to AJAX GET Requests seem to get cached aggressively. This effectively de-functions my single page app in those browsers completely and leads to duplicate tags and multiple user entries. Controlling the browsers caching behaviour from server side suddenly seems urgent and as the best option. I would appreciate any help and I would favor the 2nd solution.

1. Option

       @GET
       @Path("/my/json")
       @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
       @Override
       public Response getUsersAngebotsinfoResponse() {
           Response.ResponseBuilder response = null;
           List<Topic> all = getUsersAngebotsinfoTopics();
           response = Response.ok(sortTopicsDescByModificationDate(all));
           response.header("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");
           response.header("Pragma", "no-cache");
           response.header("Expires", 0);
           return response.build();
       }
   

But that leads to the following error message but is it really necessary for me to implement a MessageBodyWriter? for a standard Java List?

Aug 08, 2017 11:13:30 AM de.deepamehta.core.util.UniversalExceptionMapper logException
SCHWERWIEGEND: Request "GET /angebote/my/json" failed. Responding with 500 (Internal Server Error). The original exception/error is:
com.sun.jersey.api.MessageException: A message body writer for Java class java.util.ArrayList, and Java type class java.util.ArrayList, and MIME media type application/json was not found
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse.write(ContainerResponse.java:285)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1448)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1360)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1350)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:416)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:538)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:716)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:339)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.handler.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:300)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.ServletPipeline.handle(ServletPipeline.java:93)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.InvocationFilterChain.doFilter(InvocationFilterChain.java:50)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.HttpFilterChain.doFilter(HttpFilterChain.java:31)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.FilterPipeline.dispatch(FilterPipeline.java:76)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.Dispatcher.dispatch(Dispatcher.java:49)
	at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:67)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:684)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:501)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:229)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1086)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:428)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1020)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:370)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:494)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:971)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1033)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:644)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:235)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:82)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:667)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:52)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:608)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:543)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

2. Option:

See ​https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10934316/jersey-default-cache-control-to-no-cache and ​http://alex.nederlof.com/blog/2013/07/28/caching-using-annotations-with-jersey/

Question: Can I register my own jersey ResourceFilterFactory in a plugin?

3. Option: I could use POST requests as a quick-hack instead to solve my problem in time.

I would appreciate any help & thanks for your support!

[jri]

Try a DM ServiceResponseFilterListener. This way you can interfere with every Jersey request, after the resource method is executed, but before the response is sent. You can use it in particular to set response headers.

import de.deepamehta.core.service.event.ServiceResponseFilterListener;
import com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;

class MyPlugin implements ServiceResponseFilterListener {

    @Override
    public void serviceResponseFilter(ContainerResponse response) {
        MultivaluedMap headers = response.getHttpHeaders();
        headers.putSingle("Cache-Control", "max-age=0");
    }
}

Consider inspecting the response (e.g. response.getEntity()) or the request (response.getContainerRequest()) if you want set headers conditionally.

See the "DM4 Caching" plugin as an example.

[jri]

Can I register my own jersey ResourceFilterFactory? in a plugin?

No, at the moment unfortunately DM does not support this.

[jri]

Can this ticket be closed?

[Malte]

Yes, implementing a ServiceResponseFilterListener? did the trick for me.
Thanks for your support.