How to deal with defaultRolePrefix=“ROLE_” in Spring Security update from 3.2.7 to 4.0.2.RELEASE

Question

My Spring Boot application works on Spring Security 3.2.7.RELEASE. Now, I\'d like to update it to 4.0.2.RELEASE.

After hours of debug I ha

Answer 1

I found the solution how to fix it. I need to change hasRole to hasAuthority, for example:

@PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('PERMISSION_CREATE_NODE')")

Answer 2

In the other hand you can remove role prefix ass described here. In this cas you are free to use other annotations.