Jersey resource filters and OPTIONS method

Question

I use Jersey for RESTful api in my application. I have some Resource, annotated with @ResourceFilters(value=...). Everything works fine with methods, declared in resource, but when I try to make OPTIONS request, filters do not work. Is there any way to make filters work for my case, or I need to declare explicit OPTIONS method?

Answer 1

ResourceFilter is really meant for filtering execution of resource methods. If you don't define OPTIONS method explicitly, the HTTP call does not get mapped to a resource method (is handled implicitly). You can use ContainerRequestFilter for that case.