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Updated on 2025-04-14

Several ways to get Request object in SpringBoot

There are three common methods to obtain Request objects:

  • Get the Request object through the request parameter;
  • Get the Request object through RequestContextHolder;
  • Get the Request object with automatic injection.

The specific implementation is as follows.

1. Get through request parameters

Implementation code:

@RequestMapping("/index")
@ResponseBody
public void index(HttpServletRequest request){
// do something
}

The principle of implementation of this method is that when the Controller starts processing the request, Spring will assign the Request object to the method parameters, and we will directly set it to the parameters to get the Request object.

2. Get it through RequestContextHolder

In Spring Boot, RequestContextHolder is a tool class provided by the Spring framework to store and access request context information related to the current thread in a multi-threaded environment. It is mainly used to store the currently requested information within a thread scope so that this information can be shared and accessed in different components, especially without passing parameters directly.
The main functions of RequestContextHolder are as follows:

Access request context information: In a web application, each request triggers a new thread to process. RequestContextHolder allows you to obtain the context information of the current request anywhere, such as HttpServletRequest object, session information, etc.

Passing information across layers: In a multi-layer architecture, such as controller, service layer, and data access layer, you may need to pass some request-related information between these layers, but do not want to pass it explicitly in each method. With RequestContextHolder, you can set request information in one place, get and use it elsewhere.

Thread-safe context sharing: RequestContextHolder uses thread local variables to store request context information, ensuring that the context information accessed by each thread is independent in a multi-threaded environment, avoiding thread safety issues.

Therefore, we can use RequestContextHolde to get the Request object, and the implementation code is as follows:

@RequestMapping("/index")
@ResponseBody
public void index(){
	ServletRequestAttributes servletRequestAttributes = (ServletRequestAttributes)();
	HttpServletRequest request = ();
	// do something
}

3. Obtain through automatic injection

The HttpServletRequest object can also be obtained through automatic injection, as shown in the following code:

@Controller
public class HomeController{
    @Autowired
    private HttpServletRequest request; // Automatically inject request object    // do something
}

summary

The Request object is an important object for obtaining client HTTP requests and is also one of the important objects in Spring Boot. Common methods for obtaining this object are: obtaining through request parameters, obtaining through RequestContextHolder, and obtaining through injection.

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