Using HeaderResponseContainer: No FilteringHeaderResponse is present in the request cycle - wicket

Question

I'm trying to add a custom HeaderResponseContainer in my wicket application. The tutorial looks quite simple (see Positioning of contributions), but when I add these lines and run the application I alwas get an IllegalStateException:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No FilteringHeaderResponse is present in the request cycle. This may mean that you have not decorated the header response with a FilteringHeaderResponse. Simply calling the FilteringHeaderResponse constructor sets itself on the request cycle
at org.apache.wicket.markup.head.filter.FilteringHeaderResponse.get(FilteringHeaderResponse.java:165)
at org.apache.wicket.markup.head.filter.HeaderResponseContainer.onComponentTagBody(HeaderResponseContainer.java:64)
at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.panel.DefaultMarkupSourcingStrategy.onComponentTagBody(DefaultMarkupSourcingStrategy.java:71)
...
Yes, I already saw the note about FilteringHeaderResponse. But I am not sure where I should call the constructor. I already tried to add it in renderHead before calling response.render but I still get the same exception:
public void renderHead(IHeaderResponse response) {
super.renderHead(response);
FilteringHeaderResponse resp = new FilteringHeaderResponse(response);
resp.render(new FilteredHeaderItem(..., "myKey"));
}

Answer 1

You can create a decorator that wraps responses in a FilteringHeaderResponse:
public final class FilteringHeaderResponseDecorator implements IHeaderResponseDecorator {
#Override
public IHeaderResponse decorate(IHeaderResponse response) {
return new FilteringHeaderResponse(response);
}
}
And that set it during application initialization:
Override
public void init() {
super.init();
setHeaderResponseDecorator(new FilteringHeaderResponseDecorator());
}

Answer 2

I just ran into this same problem and found that the Wicket In Action tutorial leaves out the part about setting up a custom IHeaderResponseDecorator in your main Wicket Application init. The Wicket guide has a more thorough example:
Apache Wicket User Guide - Put JavaScript inside page body
You need something like this in your wicket Application:
#Override
public void init()
{
setHeaderResponseDecorator(new JavaScriptToBucketResponseDecorator("myKey"));
}
/**
* Decorates an original IHeaderResponse and renders all javascript items
* (JavaScriptHeaderItem), to a specific container in the page.
*/
static class JavaScriptToBucketResponseDecorator implements IHeaderResponseDecorator
{
private String bucketName;
public JavaScriptToBucketResponseDecorator(String bucketName) {
this.bucketName = bucketName;
}
#Override
public IHeaderResponse decorate(IHeaderResponse response) {
return new JavaScriptFilteredIntoFooterHeaderResponse(response, bucketName);
}
}