6. DispatcherServlet：Spring MVC的核心 -- getHandlerAdapter()解析

上文中提到在DispatcherServlet.doDispatch()方法中，通过this.getHandlerAdapter(mappedHandler.getHandler());获取了请求适配器。

    protected HandlerAdapter getHandlerAdapter(Object handler) throws ServletException {
        Iterator var2 = this.handlerAdapters.iterator();

        HandlerAdapter ha;
        do {
            if (!var2.hasNext()) {
                throw new ServletException("No adapter for handler [" + handler + "]: The DispatcherServlet configuration needs to include a HandlerAdapter that supports this handler");
            }

            ha = (HandlerAdapter)var2.next();
            if (this.logger.isTraceEnabled()) {
                this.logger.trace("Testing handler adapter [" + ha + "]");
            }
        } while(!ha.supports(handler));

        return ha;
    }

 从以上代码中可以看出，通过遍历 

         private List<HandlerAdapter> handlerAdapters;

并调用 HandlerAdapter 的supports()来比较是否匹配handler

实现类为：

获取到HandlerAdapter对象后将会执行DispatchServlet类方法doDispatch()的以下代码段：

                    String method = request.getMethod();
                    boolean isGet = "GET".equals(method);
                    if (isGet || "HEAD".equals(method)) {
                        long lastModified = ha.getLastModified(request, mappedHandler.getHandler());
                        if (this.logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                            this.logger.debug("Last-Modified value for [" + getRequestUri(request) + "] is: " + lastModified);
                        }

                        if ((new ServletWebRequest(request, response)).checkNotModified(lastModified) && isGet) {
                            return;
                        }
                    }

这段代码主要用来返回HTTP 304状态码。HTTP 304状态码作用是，客户端有缓存的文档并发出了一个条件性的请求后，服务器会通知客户端，原来缓存的文档对应的服务器端资源并未被修改，客户端还可以继续使用缓存文件。