protected Dispatcher createDispatcher(FilterConfig filterConfig) 
{
        Map< String, String > params = new HashMap< String, String >();
        for (Enumeration e = filterConfig.getInitParameterNames(); e.hasMoreElements();) {
            String name = (String) e.nextElement();
            String value = filterConfig.getInitParameter(name);
            params.put(name, value);
        }
        return new Dispatcher(filterConfig.getServletContext(), params);
}

Create a default Dispatcher that subclasses can override with a custom Dispatcher, if needed.

 public  void destroy() 
{
        if (dispatcher == null) {
            log.warn("something is seriously wrong, Dispatcher is not initialized (null) ");
        } else {
            try {
                dispatcher.cleanup();
            } finally {
                ActionContext.setContext(null);
            }
        }
}

Calls dispatcher.cleanup, which in turn releases local threads and destroys any DispatchListeners.

 public  void doFilter(ServletRequest req,
    ServletResponse res,
    FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException 
{
        HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) req;
        HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) res;
        ServletContext servletContext = getServletContext();
        String timerKey = "FilterDispatcher_doFilter: ";
        try {
            // FIXME: this should be refactored better to not duplicate work with the action invocation
            ValueStack stack = dispatcher.getContainer().getInstance(ValueStackFactory.class).createValueStack();
            ActionContext ctx = new ActionContext(stack.getContext());
            ActionContext.setContext(ctx);
            UtilTimerStack.push(timerKey);
            request = prepareDispatcherAndWrapRequest(request, response);
            ActionMapping mapping;
            try {
                mapping = actionMapper.getMapping(request, dispatcher.getConfigurationManager());
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                log.error("error getting ActionMapping", ex);
                dispatcher.sendError(request, response, servletContext, HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, ex);
                return;
            }
            if (mapping == null) {
                // there is no action in this request, should we look for a static resource?
                String resourcePath = RequestUtils.getServletPath(request);
                if ("".equals(resourcePath) && null != request.getPathInfo()) {
                    resourcePath = request.getPathInfo();
                }
                if (staticResourceLoader.canHandle(resourcePath)) {
                    staticResourceLoader.findStaticResource(resourcePath, request, response);
                } else {
                    // this is a normal request, let it pass through
                    chain.doFilter(request, response);
                }
                // The framework did its job here
                return;
            }
            dispatcher.serviceAction(request, response, servletContext, mapping);
        } finally {
            try {
                ActionContextCleanUp.cleanUp(req);
            } finally {
                UtilTimerStack.pop(timerKey);
            }
        }
}

Process an action or handle a request a static resource.

The filter tries to match the request to an action mapping. If mapping is found, the action processes is delegated to the dispatcher's serviceAction method. If action processing fails, doFilter will try to create an error page via the dispatcher.

Otherwise, if the request is for a static resource, the resource is copied directly to the response, with the appropriate caching headers set.

If the request does not match an action mapping, or a static resource page, then it passes through.

 protected FilterConfig getFilterConfig() 
{
        return filterConfig;
}

Expose the FilterConfig instance.

 protected ServletContext getServletContext() 
{
        return filterConfig.getServletContext();
}

Provide a workaround for some versions of WebLogic.

Servlet 2.3 specifies that the servlet context can be retrieved from the session. Unfortunately, some versions of WebLogic can only retrieve the servlet context from the filter config. Hence, this method enables subclasses to retrieve the servlet context from other sources.

 public  void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException 
{
        try {
            this.filterConfig = filterConfig;
            initLogging();
            dispatcher = createDispatcher(filterConfig);
            dispatcher.init();
            dispatcher.getContainer().inject(this);
            staticResourceLoader.setHostConfig(new FilterHostConfig(filterConfig));
        } finally {
            ActionContext.setContext(null);
        }
}

Initializes the filter by creating a default dispatcher and setting the default packages for static resources.

 protected HttpServletRequest prepareDispatcherAndWrapRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
    HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException 
{
        Dispatcher du = Dispatcher.getInstance();
        // Prepare and wrap the request if the cleanup filter hasn't already, cleanup filter should be
        // configured first before struts2 dispatcher filter, hence when its cleanup filter's turn,
        // static instance of Dispatcher should be null.
        if (du == null) {
            Dispatcher.setInstance(dispatcher);
            // prepare the request no matter what - this ensures that the proper character encoding
            // is used before invoking the mapper (see WW-9127)
            dispatcher.prepare(request, response);
        } else {
            dispatcher = du;
        }
        try {
            // Wrap request first, just in case it is multipart/form-data
            // parameters might not be accessible through before encoding (ww-1278)
            request = dispatcher.wrapRequest(request, getServletContext());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            String message = "Could not wrap servlet request with MultipartRequestWrapper!";
            log.error(message, e);
            throw new ServletException(message, e);
        }
        return request;
}

Wrap and return the given request, if needed, so as to to transparently handle multipart data as a wrapped class around the given request.

 public  void setActionMapper(ActionMapper mapper) 
{
        actionMapper = mapper;
}

Modify ActionMapper instance.

 public  void setStaticResourceLoader(StaticContentLoader staticResourceLoader) 
{
        this.staticResourceLoader = staticResourceLoader;
}

Modify state of StrutsConstants.STRUTS_STATIC_CONTENT_LOADER setting.