Re: Aborting request in Filter

[Paul J. Lucas]

And to make matters worse, Filter.handle() is final, so I can't  
override it to fix it.  Sigh....

- Paul
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:12 PM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

If I write my own filter and use its beforeHandler(), I would like,  
upon some catastrophe, to abort the entire request and return some  
client error code.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that the API for Filter allows  
aborting a request.  True?

This is another good case for using exceptions.