Spring Security and JSON Authentication

Question

I\'ve an application in spring/spring-mvc that totally uses JSON communications. Now I need to authenticate my application with spring security 3 (that uses LdapAuthenticati

Answer 1

I applied the answers from fl4l and oe.elvik for login with JSON credentials in a Spring Boot application. I am working with annotation-based bean configuration.

In the referenced answers, a custom filter is created in which the authentication manager is injected. To do this, the authentication manager must be present as a Spring Bean. Here is a link on how to do that: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21639553/3950535.