Spring security LDAP success handler

Question

I have tried to implement a success handler for login using Spring security with LDAP in my web app. After searching online, the only way I found was to implement a custom user details mapper like so:

public class CustomUserDetailsMapper extends LdapUserDetailsMapper{

private static final String ROLE_NORMAL_USER = "Normal User";
private static final String ROLE_ADMIN = "Administrator";
@Override
public UserDetails mapUserFromContext(DirContextOperations ctx,
        String username, Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authority) {
    UserDetails originalUser = super.mapUserFromContext( ctx, username, authority );


    originalUser.getAuthorities();

    Set<AndaAuthority> roles = EnumSet.noneOf(AndaAuthority.class);

    roles.add(AndaAuthority.ROLE_ADMIN);

    for (GrantedAuthority auth : authority) {
        if (ROLE_NORMAL_USER.equalsIgnoreCase(auth.getAuthority())) {
            roles.add(AndaAuthority.ROLE_USER);
        } else if (ROLE_ADMIN.equalsIgnoreCase(auth.getAuthority())) {
            roles.add(AndaAuthority.ROLE_ADMIN);
        }
    }

    SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getCredentials();

    User newUser = 
            new User( 
            originalUser.getUsername(), 
            originalUser.getPassword() != null? originalUser.getPassword():"", 
            originalUser.isEnabled(), 
            originalUser.isAccountNonExpired(), 
            originalUser.isCredentialsNonExpired(), 
            originalUser.isAccountNonLocked(), 
            roles );

            return newUser;
}
}

This was working - when I put a breakpoint here it stopped. But, is there a better way to implement a handler for such a case? I mean, the whole authentication part is done "under the hood" and I cannot really debug if something goes wrong and this method is not called, I have no other way to know where something went wrong on the way.

Thank you

Answer 1

For anyone else wondering: You must declare your success handler as a bean so you can link it in your Spring security configuration.

The implementation from here works well, you only have to declare your authentication-success-handler-ref in your <form-login> configuration tag and override the onAuthenticationSuccess method.

Other better solutions may exist, but this is the one that I found and worked in my case.