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What is the purpose of Interceptors in Spring Boot?

Tests whether you know interceptors hook into the DispatcherServlet's pre/post-handle lifecycle for cross-cutting request concerns like logging or auth checks, and can explain why that's a different layer than a Filter (servlet-level) or AOP (bean-method-level).

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