How to represent the Spring Security “custom-filter” using Java configuration?

Question

What is the equivalent Java configuration for the Spring Security tag?

Answer 1

Try to add @Component to your MyUsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter class.

This annotation makes the class considered as candidates for auto-detection, see: @Component

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For this:

You can add this:

.addFilter[Before|After](authenticationTokenProcessingFilter, UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.class)

See: Standard Filter Aliases and Ordering