Best Practices: Error Responses from Inbound filters

Are there best practices around how to respond from inbound filters. Let’s say for example, there is a inbound filter to check if a particular route exists and if not it needs to respond back with a 404. The only way to do this right now seems to be to create a new endpoint filter that’d return a 404 and then set that as the endpoint on the request context? Isn’t there a better way to do this? Like just throw an exception with say a 404 code or something?

[artgon]

Ok, I think I see what’s missing here. For both inbound and outbound filters, if you’re getting a body and you want to print it all out in the filter, you need to override the needsBodyBuffered() method and return true. See parent class here: https://github.com/Netflix/zuul/blob/2.1/zuul-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/zuul/filters/BaseFilter.java#L130

I’ll update the wiki to include this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[ghost]

thanks ，@artgon no matter what content response ，the body is always null，if I have to setBody or setBodyAsText？so how can I get the body content from the original server？