Auto login after successful registration

Question

hey all i want to make an auto login after successful registration in spring meaning: i have a protected page which requires login to access them and i want after registrati

Answer 1

This is answer to above question In Controller:

@RequestMapping(value = "/registerHere", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public ModelAndView registerUser(@ModelAttribute("user") Users user, BindingResult result,
            HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        System.out.println("register 3");

        ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("/home");
        mv.addObject("homePagee", "true");

        String uname = user.getUsername();

        if (userDAO.getUserByName(uname) == null) {

            String passwordFromForm = user.getPassword();
            userDAO.saveOrUpdate(user);

            try {
                authenticateUserAndSetSession(user, passwordFromForm, request);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }


        }

        System.out.println("register 4");

        log.debug("Ending of the method registerUser");
        return mv;
    }

Further above method in controller is defined as:

`private void authenticateUserAndSetSession(Users user, String passwor`dFromForm, HttpServletRequest request){

        String username = user.getUsername();
        System.out.println("username:  " + username + " password: " + passwordFromForm);                        

        UserDetails userDetails = userDetailsService.loadUserByUsername(user.getUsername());

        UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(username, passwordFromForm, userDetails.getAuthorities());
        request.getSession();

        System.out.println("Line Authentication 1");

        usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken.setDetails(new WebAuthenticationDetails(request));

        System.out.println("Line Authentication 2");

        Authentication authenticatedUser = authenticationManager.authenticate(usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken);

        System.out.println("Line Authentication 3");


        if (usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken.isAuthenticated()) {
            SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authenticatedUser);
            System.out.println("Line Authentication 4");

        }

     request.getSession().setAttribute(HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository.SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT_KEY, SecurityContextHolder.getContext());// creates context for that session.

        System.out.println("Line Authentication 5");

        session.setAttribute("username", user.getUsername());

        System.out.println("Line Authentication 6");

        session.setAttribute("authorities", usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken.getAuthorities());

        System.out.println("username:  " + user.getUsername() + "password: " + user.getPassword()+"authorities: "+ usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken.getAuthorities());

        user = userDAO.validate(user.getUsername(), user.getPassword());
        log.debug("You are successfully register");

    }

Other answers didnt suggest to put it in try/catch so one does not realize why logic is not working as code runs...and nothing is there neither error or exception on console. So if you wont put it in try catch you wont get exception of bad credentials.