User Entity Updates

Learn how to connect our application users to Spring Security.

So far, our security users have been different from our application users. Let’s connect our application users to Spring Security to combine them.

Password and roles

We’ll start by updating the User entity as we need to store two extra things for each User now:

  • The password for the user.

  • The roles that are assigned to the user.

We will represent the roles using an enum:

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