Spring security update last login date on authentication success

Question

How do I fire my method on authentication success? I wanted to update my database column \'last login date\'. Looked around on google but still can\'t understand how it shou

Answer 1

You can override authenticationSuccessHandler with any custom implementation you wanted to perform. Here you want to update user login date or some other similar activities

public class CustomAuthenticationSuccessHandler extends  
                     SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler {

@Override
public void onAuthenticationSuccess(HttpServletRequest request, 
                                    HttpServletResponse response,          
                                    Authentication authentication) throws IOException,ServletException {

    super.onAuthenticationSuccess(request, response, authentication);
    //Now add your custom logic to update database 
  }
}

Now you need to update authenticationSuccessHandler confiuguration in xml file as shown below.

<beans:bean id="authenticationSuccessHandler" class="yourpackage.CustomAuthenticationSuccessHandler">
      <beans:property name="useReferer" value="true" />
</beans:bean>

Optionally,

<beans:bean id="authenticationSuccessHandlerWithoutReferer" class="yourpackage.CustomAuthenticationSuccessHandler">
      <beans:property name="useReferer" value="false" />
</beans:bean>