Spring Security Role Hierarchy not working using Java Config

Question

First of all, I am new to Java Spring Framework. So forgive me if I did not provide enough info. I have tried to add RoleHierarchy into my app but it did not work. Below are

Answer 1

Note: The accepted answer won't work in the newest version of Spring security (I think since release 5.2.1). This is because the 'and' (ROLE_1 > ROLE_2 and ROLE_2 > ROLE_3) notation was never an official standard. You could have written every word instead of 'and' and it would still work the same in the past versions.

Instead, in the new version you should now use '\n' (new line), e.g. ROLE_1 > ROLE_2\nROLE2 > ROLE_3 ...