View source for Accessing web.xml Metadata from Tomcat

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* [[Tomcat Development#Subjects|Tomcat Development]]

=Overview=

=<security-constraint>=

<span id="security-constraint"></span>web.xml <security-constraint> metadata is represented by <tt>org.apache.catalina.deploy.LoginConfig</tt>.

It can be accessed as follows (the code comes from <tt>org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase</tt>).

<pre>
LoginConfig lc = contex.getLoginConfig();
</pre>

=<login-config>=

<span id="login-config"></span>web.xml <login-config> metadata is represented by <tt>org.apache.catalina.deploy.SecurityConstraint</tt>.

It can be accessed as follows (the code comes from <tt>org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase</tt>).

<pre>
Realm realm = this.context.getRealm()
SecurityConstraint [] constraints = realm.findSecurityConstraints(request, this.context);
</pre>