Is it possible in Jersey to have access to an injected HttpServletRequest, instead of to a proxy

Don't make your resource class a singleton. If you do this, there is no choice but to proxy, as the request is in a different scope.

@Singleton
@Path("servlet")
public class ServletResource {

    @Context
    HttpServletRequest request;

    @GET
    public String getType() {
        return request.getClass().getName();
    }
}

With @Singleton

C:\>curl http://localhost:8080/api/servlet
com.sun.proxy.$Proxy41

Without @Singleton

C:\>curl http://localhost:8080/api/servlet
org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request

There are other ways your class can become a singleton, like registering it as an instance

You can aslo inject it as a method parameter. Singleton or not, you will get the actual instance

@GET
public String getType(@Context HttpServletRequest request) {
    return request.getClass().getName();
}

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See Also

• Injecting Request Scoped Objects into Singleton Scoped Object with HK2 and Jersey