Spring MVC Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – adding the data audit interceptor

Using a simple MVC interceptor, you can accomplish audit logging without making changes to your application code. Create an interceptor to record an audit log using the following steps:

1. Create a class called AuditingInterceptor under the package com.packt.webstore.interceptor in the source folder src/main/java and add the following code into it:

   package com.packt.webstore.interceptor; import java.text.DateFormat; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Calendar; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.HandlerInterceptorAdapter; public class AuditingInterceptor ...