I have a simple problem - SpringBootApplication doesn't see my controller - what's more weird - only one of three.
I have UserController, WalletController and DashboardController - this one is not visible for my application.
What I have already done is:
Every package with controller is under the main package, where my SpringBootApplication.class is,
I tried annotate main SpringBootApplication.class with #ComponentScan both with basePackages and basePackageClasses,
There is no other beans - which should be annotated #Component, I removed them and moved methods to my DashboardService.class
This is my controller, which is not visible:
DashboardController
And this is my package structure(seems to be right): Package Structure
Thank You for help!
EDIT:
It might be important, that I use the third-party api to get the data I need
In that methods I use url:
private String getNbpJson(String url) {
return new RestTemplate().getForObject(url, String.class);
}
private CurrentRateDTO getCurrentExchangeRate(String json) throws JsonProcessingException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode node = mapper.readTree(json);
String code = node.get("code").toString();
String date = node.get("rates").get(0).get("effectiveDate").toString();
double bid = node.get("rates").get(0).get("bid").asDouble();
double ask = node.get("rates").get(0).get("ask").asDouble();
return new CurrentRateDTO(code, date, bid, ask);
}
And then in ExchangeService this is my url
#Service
public class ExchangeRateService implements IExchangeRateService {
private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExchangeRateService.class);
private String NBP_CURRENT_RATE_URL = "http://api.nbp.pl/api/exchangerates/rates/c/eur/2020-12-11/?format=json";
What's more... when I move methods from DashboardController to WalletController (which works)
Another thing that I have found out is that only methods, which make use of the third-party api don't work.
Basically, I retrieve data from the url above - I get the specific fields, create an objects with filled fields.
May it be a problem with retrieving data from the third-party and then implementing it in my app?
I have no more ideas for now...
Maybe your controller is registered but you type a slightly different url. Try this property logging.level.org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation: TRACE
and check on application startup if the controller is registered under some other url.
Try to add this to your controller
#RestController()
#RequestMapping("exchangerates")
Okay, I probably found out the problem... Before I have 3 controllers:
#RestController("/api")
public class UserController {}
#RestController("/wallets")
public class WalletController {}
#RestController("/exchangerates")
public class DashboardController {}
I changed the above to
#RestController("/api")
public class UserController {}
#RestController
public class WalletController {}
#RestController
public class DashboardController {}
So, basically I removed base ?endpoint? for each controller and now it works... It seems like basic endpoints in three RestControllers is too much and the third one is not available, but I don't know is it truth (I bet that it's not).
Why that happened then, can anybody explain that behaviour of controllers?
Thank You for explanantion.
I would like to get the username of the user in every request to add them to log file.
This is my solution:
First, I created a LoggedUser with a static property:
public class LoggedUser {
private static final ThreadLocal<String> userHolder =
new ThreadLocal<>();
public static void logIn(String user) {
userHolder.set(user);
}
public static void logOut() {
userHolder.remove();
}
public static String get() {
return userHolder.get();
}
}
Then I created a support class to get username:
public interface AuthenticationFacade {
Authentication getAuthentication();
}
#Component
public class AuthenticationFacadeImpl implements AuthenticationFacade {
#Override
public Authentication getAuthentication() {
return SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
}
}
Finally, I used them in my Controllers:
#RestController
public class ResourceController {
Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ResourceController.class);
#Autowired
private GenericService userService;
#Autowired
private AuthenticationFacade authenticationFacade;
#RequestMapping(value ="/cities")
public List<RandomCity> getCitiesAndLogWhoIsRequesting(){
loggedUser.logIn(authenticationFacade.getAuthentication().getName());
logger.info(LoggedUser.get()); //Log username
return userService.findAllRandomCities();
}
}
The problem is I don't want to have AuthenticationFacade in every #Controller, If I have 10000 controllers, for example, it will be a lot of works.
Do you have any better solution for it?
The solution is called Fish Tagging. Every decent logging framework has this functionality. Some frameworks call it MDC(Mapped Diagnostic Context). You can read about it here and here.
The basic idea is to use ThreadLocal or InheritableThreadLocal to hold a few key-value pairs in a thread to track a request. Using logging configuration, you can configure how to print it in the log entries.
Basically, you can write a filter, where you would retrieve the username from the security context and put it into the MDC and just forget about it. In your controller you log only the business logic related stuff. The username will be printed in the log entries along with timestamp, log level etc. (as per your log configuration).
With Jhovanni's suggestion, I created an AOP annotation like this:
#Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
#Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public #interface LogUsername {
}
In the same package, I added new #Aop #Component class with AuthenticationFacade injection:
#Aspect
#Component
public class LogUsernameAop {
Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LogUsernameAop.class);
#Autowired
private AuthenticationFacade authenticationFacade;
#Before("#annotation(LogUsername)")
public void logUsername() throws Throwable {
logger.info(authenticationFacade.getAuthentication().getName());
LoggedUser.logIn(authenticationFacade.getAuthentication().getName());
}
}
Then, in every #GetMapping method, If I need to log the username, I can add an annotation before the method:
#PostMapping
#LogUsername
public Course createCourse(#RequestBody Course course){
return courseService.saveCourse(course);
}
Finally, this is the result:
2018-10-21 08:29:07.206 INFO 8708 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] com.khoa.aop.LogUsername : john.doe
Well, you are already accesing authentication object directly from SecurityContextHolder, you can do it in your controller.
#RequestMapping(value ="/cities")
public List<RandomCity> getCitiesAndLogWhoIsRequesting(){
Authentication authentication = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
if(authentication != null){
//log user name
logger.info(authentication.get());
}
return userService.findAllRandomCities();
}
If you do not want to put all this in every endpoint, an utility method can be created to extract authentication and return its name if found.
public class UserUtil {
public static String userName(){
Authentication authentication = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
return authentication == null ? null : authentication.getName();
}
}
and call it in your endpoint like
#RequestMapping(value ="/cities")
public List<RandomCity> getCitiesAndLogWhoIsRequesting(){
//log user name
logger.info(UserUtil.username());
return userService.findAllRandomCities();
}
However, you are still adding lines of code in every endpoint, and after a few of them it starts to feel wrong being forced to do it. Something I suggest you to do is try aspect oriented programming for this kind of stuff. It will require you to invest some time in learning how it works, create annotations or executions required. But you should have it in a day or two.
With aspect oriented your endpoint could end like this
#RequestMapping(value ="/cities")
#LogUserName
public List<RandomCity> getCitiesAndLogWhoIsRequesting(){
//LogUserName annotation will inform this request should log user name if found
return userService.findAllRandomCities();
}
of course, you are able to remove #LogUserName custom annotation and configure the new aspect with being triggered by methods inside a package, or classes extending #Controller, etc.
Definitely it is worth the time, because you can use aspect for more than just logging user name.
You can obtain the username via request or parameter in your controller method. If you add Principal principal as a parameter, Spring Ioc Container will inject the information regarding the user or it will be null for anonymous users.
#RequestMapping(value ="/cities")
public List<RandomCity> getCitiesAndLogWhoIsRequesting(Principal principal){
if(principal == null){
// anonymous user
}
}
There are various ways in Spring Security to fetch the user details from the security context. But according to your requirement, you are only interested in username, so you can try this:
#RequestMapping(value ="/cities")
public List<RandomCity> getCitiesAndLogWhoIsRequesting(Authentication authentication){
logger.info(authentication.getName()); //Log username
return userService.findAllRandomCities();
}
Hope this helps!
I'm developing a system using Spring injection. During a certain point, there's a warning on the screen that is shown using an attribute on a WarningHelper class, which is a Spring Controller. Following is summarized code:
#Controller
#Scope(WebApplicationContext.SCOPE_SESSION)
public class WarningHelper implements Serializable {
//Bunch of attributes
private String warningText;
//Bunch of other methods
private String configureWarning(Integer caller, Outcome outcome, WarningReturn warningReturn, GlobalWebUser user) {
//business logic
if (hasWarning()) {
setWarningText(warningReturn.getWarningText());
}
return redirect;
}
}
That part works perfectly. Later on, a xhtml page shows this warning using another controller in which this first one is injected. Following is the edited code for the second controller:
#Controller
#Scope(WebApplicationContext.SCOPE_APPLICATION)
public class CustomUrlController {
//Bunch of other attributes
#Inject
private WarningHelper warningHelper;
//Bunch of methods
public String getAllMessages() {
String completeMessage = "";
//business logic creating the message
completeMessage += warningHelper.getWarningText();
return complete Message
}
}
This all works just fine the first time around. The problem is that if I try then to enter another profile which has a different message, the first one is still shown. Note that this change process does not involve another login, so the session is still the same. I have tried toying around with the scope, but to no avail.
Change the #Scope(WebApplicationContext.SCOPE_SESSION) as #Scope(WebApplicationContext.SCOPE_REQUEST) in both WarningHelper and CustomUrlController class. This will instantiate the CustomUrlController and warningHelper for every request.
I just want to know whether controller class method is accessible from another java class.
following is my controller and its method.
#Controller
public class TestResultUploadController {
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST,value="/uploadTestResult")
public #ResponseBody
String uploadTestResult(String testResultBarcode,int deviceLoc) {
//some code goes here
return something;
}
I just want to call this controller method from another java class.
How can I make it work?
please suggest..
Short answer: yes, it is possible. In your other class/thread, you can do
// this will create a new instance of that controller where no fields are wired/injected
TestResultUploadController controller = new TestResultUploadController();
controller.uploadTestResult("someString", 1234);
However, keep in mind that your setup is highly unusual and all your autowired fields wouldn't be wired correctly. If you obtain your controller from the context, you'd be able to have your fields wired/injected properly:
// obtain controller bean from context, should have fields wired properly
TestResultUploadController controller = ctx.getBean(TestResultUploadController.class);
controller.uploadTestResult("someString", 1234);
or you can, in your other class, have:
#Autowired private TestResultUploadController controller;
....
public void doStuff(){
controller.uploadTestResult("someString", 1234);
}
Again, this is highly unusual, but highly possible. However, just cause something is possible to be done, doesn't mean you should do it. I would recommend the more common Spring/MVC approach in which you outsource the business logic to Services. Basically, to have something like this:
#Controller
public class TestResultUploadController {
#Autowired private UploadTestResultService uploadTestResultService;
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST,value="/uploadTestResult")
public #ResponseBody String uploadTestResult(String testResultBarcode,int deviceLoc) {
return uploadTestResultService.uploadTestResult(testResultBarcode, deviceLoc);
}
}
And in your thread:
//somehow get the service
UploadTestResultService uploadTestResultService = //somehowGetTheService (whether from context or in some other way)
uploadTestResultService.uploadTestResult(testResultBarcode, deviceLoc);
That way, you'd be able to mock the UploadTestResultService in your tests of the controller, and you'd also be able to test the uploadTestResult method of that service on its own without it being in a controller.
EDIT:
How to obtain the Spring context is outside of the scope of this question. I assume you know basic Spring and also basic java.
I have a Spring MVC web app which uses Spring Security. I want to know the username of the currently logged in user. I'm using the code snippet given below . Is this the accepted way?
I don't like having a call to a static method inside this controller - that defeats the whole purpose of Spring, IMHO. Is there a way to configure the app to have the current SecurityContext, or current Authentication, injected instead?
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView showResults(final HttpServletRequest request...) {
final String currentUser = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getName();
...
}
If you are using Spring 3, the easiest way is:
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView showResults(final HttpServletRequest request, Principal principal) {
final String currentUser = principal.getName();
}
A lot has changed in the Spring world since this question was answered. Spring has simplified getting the current user in a controller. For other beans, Spring has adopted the suggestions of the author and simplified the injection of 'SecurityContextHolder'. More details are in the comments.
This is the solution I've ended up going with. Instead of using SecurityContextHolder in my controller, I want to inject something which uses SecurityContextHolder under the hood but abstracts away that singleton-like class from my code. I've found no way to do this other than rolling my own interface, like so:
public interface SecurityContextFacade {
SecurityContext getContext();
void setContext(SecurityContext securityContext);
}
Now, my controller (or whatever POJO) would look like this:
public class FooController {
private final SecurityContextFacade securityContextFacade;
public FooController(SecurityContextFacade securityContextFacade) {
this.securityContextFacade = securityContextFacade;
}
public void doSomething(){
SecurityContext context = securityContextFacade.getContext();
// do something w/ context
}
}
And, because of the interface being a point of decoupling, unit testing is straightforward. In this example I use Mockito:
public class FooControllerTest {
private FooController controller;
private SecurityContextFacade mockSecurityContextFacade;
private SecurityContext mockSecurityContext;
#Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
mockSecurityContextFacade = mock(SecurityContextFacade.class);
mockSecurityContext = mock(SecurityContext.class);
stub(mockSecurityContextFacade.getContext()).toReturn(mockSecurityContext);
controller = new FooController(mockSecurityContextFacade);
}
#Test
public void testDoSomething() {
controller.doSomething();
verify(mockSecurityContextFacade).getContext();
}
}
The default implementation of the interface looks like this:
public class SecurityContextHolderFacade implements SecurityContextFacade {
public SecurityContext getContext() {
return SecurityContextHolder.getContext();
}
public void setContext(SecurityContext securityContext) {
SecurityContextHolder.setContext(securityContext);
}
}
And, finally, the production Spring config looks like this:
<bean id="myController" class="com.foo.FooController">
...
<constructor-arg index="1">
<bean class="com.foo.SecurityContextHolderFacade">
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
It seems more than a little silly that Spring, a dependency injection container of all things, has not supplied a way to inject something similar. I understand SecurityContextHolder was inherited from acegi, but still. The thing is, they're so close - if only SecurityContextHolder had a getter to get the underlying SecurityContextHolderStrategy instance (which is an interface), you could inject that. In fact, I even opened a Jira issue to that effect.
One last thing - I've just substantially changed the answer I had here before. Check the history if you're curious but, as a coworker pointed out to me, my previous answer would not work in a multi-threaded environment. The underlying SecurityContextHolderStrategy used by SecurityContextHolder is, by default, an instance of ThreadLocalSecurityContextHolderStrategy, which stores SecurityContexts in a ThreadLocal. Therefore, it is not necessarily a good idea to inject the SecurityContext directly into a bean at initialization time - it may need to be retrieved from the ThreadLocal each time, in a multi-threaded environment, so the correct one is retrieved.
I agree that having to query the SecurityContext for the current user stinks, it seems a very un-Spring way to handle this problem.
I wrote a static "helper" class to deal with this problem; it's dirty in that it's a global and static method, but I figured this way if we change anything related to Security, at least I only have to change the details in one place:
/**
* Returns the domain User object for the currently logged in user, or null
* if no User is logged in.
*
* #return User object for the currently logged in user, or null if no User
* is logged in.
*/
public static User getCurrentUser() {
Object principal = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal()
if (principal instanceof MyUserDetails) return ((MyUserDetails) principal).getUser();
// principal object is either null or represents anonymous user -
// neither of which our domain User object can represent - so return null
return null;
}
/**
* Utility method to determine if the current user is logged in /
* authenticated.
* <p>
* Equivalent of calling:
* <p>
* <code>getCurrentUser() != null</code>
*
* #return if user is logged in
*/
public static boolean isLoggedIn() {
return getCurrentUser() != null;
}
To make it just show up in your JSP pages, you can use the Spring Security Tag Lib:
http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.0.x/reference/taglibs.html
To use any of the tags, you must have the security taglib declared in your JSP:
<%# taglib prefix="security" uri="http://www.springframework.org/security/tags" %>
Then in a jsp page do something like this:
<security:authorize access="isAuthenticated()">
logged in as <security:authentication property="principal.username" />
</security:authorize>
<security:authorize access="! isAuthenticated()">
not logged in
</security:authorize>
NOTE: As mentioned in the comments by #SBerg413, you'll need to add
use-expressions="true"
to the "http" tag in the security.xml config for this to work.
If you are using Spring Security ver >= 3.2, you can use the #AuthenticationPrincipal annotation:
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView showResults(#AuthenticationPrincipal CustomUser currentUser, HttpServletRequest request) {
String currentUsername = currentUser.getUsername();
// ...
}
Here, CustomUser is a custom object that implements UserDetails that is returned by a custom UserDetailsService.
More information can be found in the #AuthenticationPrincipal chapter of the Spring Security reference docs.
I get authenticated user by
HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal();
Example:
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.preauth.RequestHeaderAuthenticationFilter;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.support.RequestContext;
import foo.Form;
#Controller
#RequestMapping(value="/welcome")
public class IndexController {
#RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String getCreateForm(Model model, HttpServletRequest request) {
if(request.getUserPrincipal() != null) {
String loginName = request.getUserPrincipal().getName();
System.out.println("loginName : " + loginName );
}
model.addAttribute("form", new Form());
return "welcome";
}
}
In Spring 3+ you have have following options.
Option 1 :
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String currentUserNameByPrincipal(Principal principal) {
return principal.getName();
}
Option 2 :
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String currentUserNameByAuthentication(Authentication authentication) {
return authentication.getName();
}
Option 3:
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String currentUserByHTTPRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
return request.getUserPrincipal().getName();
}
Option 4 : Fancy one : Check this out for more details
public ModelAndView someRequestHandler(#ActiveUser User activeUser) {
...
}
I would just do this:
request.getRemoteUser();
Yes, statics are generally bad - generally, but in this case, the static is the most secure code you can write. Since the security context associates a Principal with the currently running thread, the most secure code would access the static from the thread as directly as possible. Hiding the access behind a wrapper class that is injected provides an attacker with more points to attack. They wouldn't need access to the code (which they would have a hard time changing if the jar was signed), they just need a way to override the configuration, which can be done at runtime or slipping some XML onto the classpath. Even using annotation injection in the signed code would be overridable with external XML. Such XML could inject the running system with a rogue principal. This is probably why Spring is doing something so un-Spring-like in this case.
For the last Spring MVC app I wrote, I didn't inject the SecurityContext holder, but I did have a base controller that I had two utility methods related to this ... isAuthenticated() & getUsername(). Internally they do the static method call you described.
At least then it's only in once place if you need to later refactor.
You could use Spring AOP aproach.
For example if you have some service, that needs to know current principal. You could introduce custom annotation i.e. #Principal , which indicate that this Service should be principal dependent.
public class SomeService {
private String principal;
#Principal
public setPrincipal(String principal){
this.principal=principal;
}
}
Then in your advice, which I think needs to extend MethodBeforeAdvice, check that particular service has #Principal annotation and inject Principal name, or set it to 'ANONYMOUS' instead.
The only problem is that even after authenticating with Spring Security, the user/principal bean doesn't exist in the container, so dependency-injecting it will be difficult. Before we used Spring Security we would create a session-scoped bean that had the current Principal, inject that into an "AuthService" and then inject that Service into most of the other services in the Application. So those Services would simply call authService.getCurrentUser() to get the object. If you have a place in your code where you get a reference to the same Principal in the session, you can simply set it as a property on your session-scoped bean.
The best solution if you are using Spring 3 and need the authenticated principal in your controller is to do something like this:
import org.springframework.security.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
#Controller
public class KnoteController {
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public java.lang.String list(Model uiModel, UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken authToken) {
if (authToken instanceof UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken) {
user = (User) authToken.getPrincipal();
}
...
}
Try this
Authentication authentication =
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
String userName = authentication.getName();
I am using the #AuthenticationPrincipal annotation in #Controller classes as well as in #ControllerAdvicer annotated ones. Ex.:
#ControllerAdvice
public class ControllerAdvicer
{
private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ControllerAdvicer.class);
#ModelAttribute("userActive")
public UserActive currentUser(#AuthenticationPrincipal UserActive currentUser)
{
return currentUser;
}
}
Where UserActive is the class i use for logged users services, and extends from org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User. Something like:
public class UserActive extends org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User
{
private final User user;
public UserActive(User user)
{
super(user.getUsername(), user.getPasswordHash(), user.getGrantedAuthorities());
this.user = user;
}
//More functions
}
Really easy.
Define Principal as a dependency in your controller method and spring will inject the current authenticated user in your method at invocation.
I like to share my way of supporting user details on freemarker page.
Everything is very simple and working perfectly!
You just have to place Authentication rerequest on default-target-url (page after form-login)
This is my Controler method for that page:
#RequestMapping(value = "/monitoring", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView getMonitoringPage(Model model, final HttpServletRequest request) {
showRequestLog("monitoring");
Authentication authentication = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
String userName = authentication.getName();
//create a new session
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
session.setAttribute("username", userName);
return new ModelAndView(catalogPath + "monitoring");
}
And this is my ftl code:
<#security.authorize ifAnyGranted="ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_USER">
<p style="padding-right: 20px;">Logged in as ${username!"Anonymous" }</p>
</#security.authorize>
And that's it, username will appear on every page after authorisation.