Last updated: 2024-09-17
How to add more roles in Spring Security
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After setting up our application with Spring Security, we may want to customize the roles we use. For form-based login or JWT, users are usually loaded via an implementation of UserDetailsService. How can we load roles from the database instead?
First version of our HttpUserDetailsService or JwtUserDetailsService
This initial version always assigns a single, fixed role to the user. If we want to read all roles from the database, we could use the following logic instead.
Reading and assigning more roles to our user
With this change our user already possesses all his new roles as a list of SimpleGrantedAuthority, coming directly from the database.
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