How to check “hasRole” in Java Code with Spring Security?

Question

How to check user authority or permission in Java Code ? For example - I want to show or hide button for user depending on role. There are annotations like:

Answer 1

In our project, we are using a role hierarchy, while most of the above answers only aim at checking for a specific role, i.e. would only check for the role given, but not for that role and up the hierarchy.

A solution for this:

@Component
public class SpringRoleEvaluator {

@Resource(name="roleHierarchy")
private RoleHierarchy roleHierarchy;

public boolean hasRole(String role) {
    UserDetails dt = AuthenticationUtils.getSessionUserDetails();

    for (GrantedAuthority auth: roleHierarchy.getReachableGrantedAuthorities(dt.getAuthorities())) {
        if (auth.toString().equals("ROLE_"+role)) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

RoleHierarchy is defined as a bean in spring-security.xml.