I have several different controllers, configured with endpoints like below. Where {id} is a numeric @PathVariable. Using HttpSecurity, I want to implement security around all endpoints that have {id} in them. So I created an ant pattern like this: The ant pattern is correctly matching on the endpoints with {i…
Tag: spring-security
Trying to add a regex for password pattern matching with Spring Boot
I want to add pattern matching for a user registering a password. In my user model I have: However, when I go to register a user I am getting a 400 Bad Request. Can it be done with the @Pattern annotation? And should it go on the model? The endpoint for my controller looks like this: This is the data
Spring Security Expression: “authenticated” vs. “isAuthenticated()”
According to the Spring Security docs, the expression to check whether a user is authenticated is isAuthenticated(). So we would do @PreAuthorize(“isAuthenticated()”), for example. However, according to the official example and confirmed by my own testing, @PreAuthorize(“authenticated”…
endpoint for authentication with spring security
I wanna create custom endpoint for login. It works fine when password and username are correct but returns 200 and login form instead 401 for incorrect data. public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter { private final UserDetailsService userDetailsService; } Answer Try something li…
OAuth2 authorization code flow: spring-security does not accept the issued access_token
I am learning the OAuth2 authorization code flow. I have my own Authorization Server (AS) which is OpenAM 7.1. The Client is a simple Spring-Boot web application with a static HTML page, I use Spring-Security to protect the HTML page and control the Oauth2 flow. I think that my Authorization Server configurat…
Spring security application giving No AuthenticationProvider found for org.springframework.security.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken
I am new to spring boot. I am trying to implement a simple spring boot security with userdetailsservice in Spring Tool Suite(STS). Below is the controller I used: And the Web security configuration code: I gave all the required dependencies in pom.xml. So, I have added below line in application.propperties fi…
How to return a ManyToOne Bidirectional JPA Entity Object in response of a Spring RestController?
I have 2 entities User and Authority having bidirectional Many-To-One relationship b/w them. But when I send the User object as a response from the RestController, I get nested objects ie. User{Authority{User{Authority{User{Authority{..}}}}}} How can I achieve that the controller must return only? User{Author…
Testing @PreAuthorize annotation with hasAuthority()
I am trying to unit test my apis that have @PreAuthorize annotation. I am getting the cognito groups from the Jwt and using them as authorities. I check the same in the preauthorize annotation in the api methods. UPDATE: I get the 404 No mapping Delete profile/VOlUc3F5A_test.txt exists Test class: Controller …
How does Spring Security check @PreAuthorize and how does it call hasAuthority() method?
When I use Spring Security I found @PreAuthorize(“hasAuthority(‘authority_name’)”) How does Spring Security check @PreAuthorize and how does it call hasAuthority() method? Answer Spring Security (@PreAuthorize) use a SPEL (Spring Expression Language) expression that invoke an Object re…
Spring Boot HTTP security configuration anonymous filter and a custom filter on a different path
I have experienced a strange problem while trying to configure HTTP security by using WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter. Here is the full configuration class I tried so far: What I would like to do is actually enabling anonymous authentication for all endpoints — to prevent NullPointerExceptions when operating on …