JWT Spring Security Demo

##About This is just a simple demo for using JWT (JSON Web Token) with Spring Security and Spring Boot. This solution is partially based on the blog entry REST Security with JWT using Java and Spring Security and the demo project Cerberus. Thanks to the authors!

##Requirements This demo is build with with Maven and Java 1.8.

##Usage Just start the application with the Spring Boot maven plugin (mvn spring-boot:run). The application is running at http://localhost:8080.

There are three user accounts present to demonstrate the different levels of access to the endpoints in the API and the different authorization exceptions:

Admin - admin:admin
User - user:password
Disabled - disabled:password (this user is disabled)

There are three endpoints that are reasonable for the demo:

/auth - authentication endpoint with unrestricted access
/persons - an example endpoint that is restricted to authorized users (a valid JWT token must be present in the request header)
/protected - an example endpoint that is restricted to authorized users with the role 'ROLE_ADMIN' (a valid JWT token must be present in the request header)

I've written a small Javascript client and put some comments in the code that hopefully makes this demo understandable.

###Generating password hash for new users

I'm using bcrypt to encode passwords. Your can generate your hashes with this simple tool: Bcrypt Generator

###Using another database

Actually this demo is using an embedded H2 database that is automatically configured by Spring Boot. If you want to connect to another database you have to specify the connection in the application.yml in the resource directory. Here is an example for a MySQL DB:

spring:
  jpa:
    hibernate:
      # possible values: validate | update | create | create-drop
      ddl-auto: create-drop
  datasource:
    url: jdbc:mysql://localhost/myDatabase
    username: myUser
    password: myPassword
    driver-class-name: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

You can find a reference of all properties here.

##External resources

Dan Vega (https://twitter.com/therealdanvega) created a video that explained this project quite fine. Thanks to him!

https://youtu.be/mD3vmgksvz8

##Creator

Stephan Zerhusen

• https://twitter.com/stzerhus
• https://github.com/szerhusenBC

##Copyright and license

The code is released under the MIT license.

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Please feel free to send me some feedback or questions!