How to enable CORS on Tomcat for WASP (uimapi)

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We need to be able to enable CORS on the UIM webapi portlet. 

Environment

Release : 9.2.0

Component : UIM - NISAPI_WASP

Resolution

How to enable CORS in UIMAPI

Open web.xml file ~\Nimsoft\probes\service\wasp\webapps\uimapi\WEB-INF folder

Add below filter before “Front Door Filter” 

Restart the WASP.

 

<filter>
  <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.CorsFilter</filter-class>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>cors.allowed.origins</param-name>
    <param-value>*</param-value> <!--  add allowed origins separated by comma eg: http://www.broadcom.net -->
  </init-param>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>cors.allowed.methods</param-name>
    <param-value>GET,POST,HEAD,OPTIONS,PUT</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>cors.allowed.headers</param-name>
    <param-value>Content-Type,X-Requested-With,accept,Origin,Access-Control-Request-Method,Access-Control-Request-Headers</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>cors.exposed.headers</param-name>
    <param-value>Access-Control-Allow-Origin,Access-Control-Allow-Credentials</param-value>
  </init-param>
  </filter>
<filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>CorsFilter</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>