ServletFilter and underlying JiraWebAction

[Titus]

When I use a servlet filter for filtering input requests and responses how can I get the underlying webaction of type JiraWebActionSupport?

I need to check the webaction for set error messages or error fields. Depending on them the filter will do something else e.g. a redirect as the filter would do without any set error message.

The filter is declared in atlassian-plugin.xml:

 <servlet-filter name="secSignIDCreateUserFilter"

                key="com.secsign.jira.servlet.filter.SecSignIDCreateUserFilter"

                class="com.secsign.jira.servlet.filter.SecSignIDCreateUserFilter"

                location="before-decoration"

                weight="200">

        <url-pattern>*AddUser*.jspa</url-pattern>

        <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>

</servlet-filter>

AddUser is the webaction from jira-core.

[Midori · Accepted solution]

You can't simply get the corresponding action from a filter, and I would even say that that would be "bad architecture".

Why don't you use the action to return a "redirect" result? It is dead simple and "theoretically correct":

<action name="start-qualityanalysis" class="...StartContentQualityAnalysisAction">
  <result name="success" type="redirect">/admin/plugins/archiving/statistics.action</result>
</action>

[Titus]

Thanks for the answer. You are right, it would be a bad architecture. For a normal action the redirect would work fine but I need to override one of JIRAs built in action. And I dont know yet if I could ship any edited jsp of JIRA with a plugin.