Servlet request attribute
A servlet request attribute is a named value attached to an individual HTTP request for access by request-processing components or view rendering.
Spring Security in Action, Second Edition
A request attribute is a named value attached to an HTTP request for access by components processing that request.
- How it is used
- Provides a handoff point for passing a CSRF token from CsrfFilter to a later servlet filter.
- How deep it goes
- Explains named-value retrieval, CsrfToken casting, filter ordering, and request testing, but not general servlet attribute internals.
- Examples
- Uses CsrfTokenLogger, the _csrf attribute, curl GET and POST requests, and HTTP 403 behavior.
- What you can do after
- Diagnose CSRF handling by retrieving and logging the token from a request attribute.
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Spring in Action, Sixth Edition
A request attribute is a named value associated with an individual web request and made available to request-processing components or view rendering.
- How it is used
- Connects Spring MVC model data to Thymeleaf view rendering through servlet request attributes.
- How deep it goes
- Explains copying model data, reading values, and iterating collections, without detailing servlet internals.
- Examples
- Uses a message paragraph and a taco ingredient collection rendered with Thymeleaf expressions.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Thymeleaf by reading named values and repeating markup for collection-valued attributes.
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Related concepts
- MVC modelproduced by · An MVC model is the application component that represents application data and associated domain logic, making relevant state and behavior available to other components such as views.
- Thymeleafused by · Thymeleaf is a Java server-side template engine for generating HTML, markup, and other text-based documents from templates and model data.
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