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Spring Security

You're reading from   Spring Security Secure your web applications, RESTful services, and microservice architectures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129511
Length 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Robert Winch Robert Winch
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Peter Mularien Peter Mularien
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Anatomy of an Unsafe Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Spring Security 3. Custom Authentication 4. JDBC-Based Authentication 5. Authentication with Spring Data 6. LDAP Directory Services 7. Remember-Me Services 8. Client Certificate Authentication with TLS 9. Opening up to OAuth 2 10. Single Sign-On with the Central Authentication Service 11. Fine-Grained Access Control 12. Access Control Lists 13. Custom Authorization 14. Session Management 15. Additional Spring Security Features 16. Migration to Spring Security 4.2 17. Microservice Security with OAuth 2 and JSON Web Tokens 18. Additional Reference Material

Interface-based proxies

In the given example from the previous section, Spring Security used an interface-based proxy to secure our getEvents method. Let's take a look at the simplified pseudocode of what happened to understand how this works:

    DefaultCalendarService originalService = context.getBean
(CalendarService.class)
CalendarService secureService = new CalendarService() {
… other methods just delegate to originalService ...
public List<Event> getEvents() {
if(!permitted(originalService.getEvents)) {
throw AccessDeniedException()
} return originalCalendarService.getEvents()
}
};

You can see that Spring creates the original CalendarService just as it normally does. However, it instructs our code to use another implementation of CalendarService that performs a security check before returning the result...

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