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Spring Security Connection

Spring Security Connection

Let's connect our User entity with Spring Security.

We'll cover the following...

Establishing connection

We need two things to make the connection possible:

  • An implementation of the org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService interface.

  • An implementation of the org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetails interface.

The UserDetailsService1 interface has a single method that takes a string. This parameter is the username or the email, depending on what users use to log on. The method returns an instance of UserDetails or throws an org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UsernameNotFoundException if no ...