Step 1—Spring Security configuration setup

We will now create the all-important Spring Security configuration class and make sure that the default filter chain for Spring Security is set up to secure all the resources:

@EnableWebSecurity
public class SpringSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
   @Autowired
   private DataSource dataSource;
   @Override
   protected void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
       auth.jdbcAuthentication().dataSource(dataSource)
               .usersByUsernameQuery("select username, password, enabled"
                       + " from users where username = ?")
               .authoritiesByUsernameQuery("select username, authority "
                       + "from authorities where username = ?")
               .passwordEncoder(new BCryptPasswordEncoder());
   }
   @Override
   protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
       http.authorizeRequests().anyRequest().hasAnyRole("ADMIN", "USER")
               .and()
               .httpBasic(); // Use Basic authentication
   }
}

In Spring Security configuration, the first thing that we do is tell Spring Security that you will have to authenticate the user against a database by using a defined user query and checking the user's authority using the defined authority query.

We then set up the authentication mechanism to retrieve the user's credentials. Here we are using basic authentication as the mechanism to capture user credentials. Please note that the role names being used to check doesn't have the prefix ROLE_.