Background At work, there’s some test written where I wanted to query the database (repository) after mockMvc request has been made to verify the result. This is a very simple illustration of what it looks like. @SpringBootTest @AutoConfigureMockMvc ...
Introduction If you have used Spring Security before, you will likely enable the debug mode at some point @Configuration @EnableWebSecurity(debug = true) public class WebSecurityConfiguration { // omit } Start the application and you will see th...
Introduction In one of my project setups, the authentication process is offloaded to Keycloak and set up with an Open Policy Agent sidecar in a typical Kubernetes deployment. Any request that comes to the service, will be pre-authenticated, and all c...
Background While I was writing for another blog post, I realize something interesting about RequestHeaderAuthenticationFilter where it isn't registered as part of the SecurityFilterChain. I thought this post should come first, to provide some sort of...
