Creating a Servlet Deployment

A simple example of how to create a Servlet deployment is the servlet example from the Undertow examples:

DeploymentInfo servletBuilder = Servlets.deployment()
        .setClassLoader(ServletServer.class.getClassLoader())
        .setContextPath("/myapp")
        .setDeploymentName("test.war")
        .addServlets(
                Servlets.servlet("MessageServlet", MessageServlet.class)
                        .addInitParam("message", "Hello World")
                        .addMapping("/*"),
                Servlets.servlet("MyServlet", MessageServlet.class)
                        .addInitParam("message", "MyServlet")
                        .addMapping("/myservlet"));

DeploymentManager manager = Servlets.defaultContainer().addDeployment(servletBuilder);
manager.deploy();
PathHandler path = Handlers.path(Handlers.redirect("/myapp"))
        .addPrefixPath("/myapp", manager.start());

Undertow server = Undertow.builder()
        .addHttpListener(8080, "localhost")
        .setHandler(path)
        .build();
server.start();

The basic process is to create a DeploymentInfo structure (this can be done use the io.undertow.servlets.Servlets utility method), add any Servlets and other information to this structure, and then deploy it to a Servlet container.

After this is deployed you can call the start() method on the DeploymentManager which returns a HttpHandler than can then be installed in an Undertow server handler chain.

The DeploymentInfo structure has a lot of data, and most of it directly corresponds to data in web.xml so it will not be covered in this guide, instead this will focus on the elements that are Undertow specific.

Handler Chain Wrappers

Handler chain wrappers allow you to insert additional HttpHandlers into the Servlet chain, there are three methods that allow you to do this:

addInitialHandlerChainWrapper()

This allows you to add a handler that is run before all other Servlet handlers. If this handler does not delegate to the next handler in the chain it can effectively bypass the Servlet deployment.

addOuterHandlerChainWrapper()

This handler is run after the servlet request context has been setup, but before any other handlers.

addInnerHandlerChainWrapper()

This handler is run after the security handlers, just before the request is dispatched to deployment code.

Thread Setup Actions

Thread setup actions can be added using the addThreadSetupAction() method, these actions will be run before a request is dispatched to a thread, so any thread local data can be setup.

The Resource Manager

The ResourceManager is used by the default servlet to serve all static resources. By modifying the resource manager in use it is possible to pick where static resource are served from.

Authentication Mechanisms

The authentication mechanism to use is determined by the LoginConfig object. This maintains a list of mechanism names and the mechanisms will be tried in order.

In addition to the built in mechanisms it is possible to add custom authentication mechanisms using the addFirstAuthenticationMechanism() addLastAuthenticationMechanism() and addAuthenticationMechanism() methods.

The first and last versions of this method will both add a mechanism and add it to the LoginConfig object, while the addAuthenticationMechanism() simply registers a factory for the given mechanism name. If you are trying to create a general purpose authentication mechanism via a Servlet extension this is the method you should use, as it means you can install your extension into a server for all deployments, and it will only be active for deployments where the user has specifically selected your mechanism name in web.xml.