ErrorResponseWriter.java
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package org.entrystore.rest.springboot.util;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.entrystore.rest.springboot.model.api.ErrorResponse;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.security.web.util.UrlUtils;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import tools.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Writes {@link ErrorResponse} bodies straight to the servlet response, for servlet filters and
* Spring Security handlers where {@code AppExceptionHandler} ({@code @ControllerAdvice}) is not
* available because they run before the DispatcherServlet.
*
* <p>Uses the Spring-managed {@link ObjectMapper} — the same one {@code AppExceptionHandler}
* serializes with — so any {@code spring.jackson.*} customisation applies to every error body
* regardless of which layer produced it.
*/
@Slf4j
@Component
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class ErrorResponseWriter {
private final ObjectMapper objectMapper;
/**
* Writes a JSON error response directly to the servlet response.
*/
public void writeErrorResponseAsJson(HttpServletResponse response, ErrorResponse errorResponse) throws IOException {
if (response.isCommitted()) {
log.warn("Cannot write error response — response already committed (status={})", errorResponse.status());
return;
}
response.setStatus(errorResponse.status());
response.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE);
var writer = response.getWriter();
writer.write(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(errorResponse));
writer.flush();
}
/**
* Redirects to the given URL if non-null, otherwise writes a 401 JSON error response. Raises no
* application exception, so it is safe to use from a servlet filter or a Spring Security handler
* where {@code AppExceptionHandler} cannot see the failure; only {@code IOException} propagates.
*
* <p>Both branches bail out on an already-committed response. This is reachable: a
* last-resort {@code catch} in {@code AbstractSsoLoginSuccessHandler} calls this after a
* subclass's custom-success redirect may already have committed, and {@code sendRedirect} throws
* {@code IllegalStateException} in that case — which would escape the Security filter chain as a
* raw container 500 instead of the intended failure response.
*
* <p>A context-relative {@code redirectUrl} (e.g. the default {@code /auth/user}) is prefixed with the
* servlet context path, mirroring Spring Security's {@code DefaultRedirectStrategy}; the container
* would otherwise resolve it against the server root.
*
* @param failureMessage message for the JSON fallback body (e.g. "CAS login failed")
*/
public void redirectOrWriteUnauthorized(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
String redirectUrl, String failureMessage) throws IOException {
if (redirectUrl != null) {
if (response.isCommitted()) {
log.warn("Cannot redirect to the SSO failure URL — response already committed");
return;
}
response.sendRedirect(UrlUtils.isAbsoluteUrl(redirectUrl) ? redirectUrl : request.getContextPath() + redirectUrl);
} else {
writeErrorResponseAsJson(response, ErrorResponse.builder()
.status(HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED.value())
.path(request.getRequestURI())
.error(failureMessage != null ? failureMessage : "SSO login failed")
.build());
}
}
/**
* Writes the unified 401 JSON envelope used for every authentication failure
* (bad credentials, unknown user, blacklisted user, a disabled account's wrong password)
* except a disabled account's correct password, which
* {@code FormLoginAuthenticationFailureHandler} answers 403. Centralised
* here so the body stays identical across all call sites for a given request URI
* and no caller can accidentally introduce a discriminator. The timestamp field
* is explicitly nulled so the wall-clock delta between branches (immediate
* blacklist short-circuit vs. post-bcrypt bad-credentials path) does not leak
* through {@code body.timestamp − client.sentAt}; only the request URI varies.
*/
public void writeUnauthorizedAsJson(HttpServletResponse response, String requestUri) throws IOException {
writeErrorResponseAsJson(response, ErrorResponse.builder()
.timestamp(null)
.status(HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED.value())
.path(requestUri)
.error(HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED.getReasonPhrase())
.build());
}
}