This tutorial will teach you how to configure your Spring Boot application to log messages to a file. Specify File Path To make your application log messages to a file, you will need to configure a couple of new properties in the application.properties file. logging.file.path=/path/to/a/file logging.file.name=log.txt You might also need to enable a specific logging level…
Read More Log to File in Spring BootIn this short tutorial, I am going to share with you how to switch your Spring Boot application, at runtime, to use a different logging level. Set Logging Level for a Package in Your App Suppose we have a Spring Boot Application with the following method in a Rest Controller class. @RestController @RequestMapping(“/users”) public class…
Read More Switch Logging Level in Spring Boot at RuntimeIn this short tutorial, you will learn how to configure the /logout functionality in your Spring Boot Web application that uses OAuth2 Social Login. To learn how to implement the OAuth2 Social login feature, please check the following tutorial: Spring Security OAuth 2 Social Login. Configure HttpSecurity Applications that use Spring Security and OAuth2 Social login…
Read More Spring Security OAuth 2 Social LogoutIn this tutorial, you will learn how to add a Social Login(OAuth 2) feature into your Spring MVC Web application. This will allow users to login to your application with their social network accounts like Facebook, Google, or other large services that support OAuth 2 like for example GitHub. Spring Security 5 offers very good…
Read More Spring Security OAuth 2 Social LoginIn this short tutorial, you will learn how to read an ID Token in your Spring Boot Web Application @Controller class. The ID Token is a security token that is issued by the Identity Provider Server and it contains information about the currently authenticated user. For example, from the ID token, you can get the…
Read More Reading OAuth2 ID Token in Spring MVCIn this tutorial, you will learn how to use @AuthenticationPrincipal annotation to get the Jwt object containing the details of a provided in HTTP Request access token. When we send a request containing an access token in the Authorization header, behind the scenes, Spring Framework will do a lot of work and if all is good,…
Read More @AuthenticationPrincipal – Getting the Jwt ClaimsBy default, Spring Boot RESTful web service endpoints consume and produce JSON representations. However, it’s possible to enable consuming XML and producing it for your REST API endpoints with minimal effort. This tutorial will guide you through the process of adding XML support to your Spring Boot application, allowing consuming XML and producing representations of…
Read More Consuming XML in Spring Boot RESTHATEOAS is a way to make your RESTful Web Service endpoint, automatically include links to other Resources of your API, in the response that it sends back to a calling client application. The client application that consumes your web service endpoint, can then use those links, to consume other RESTful Resources that your Web Service…
Read More Add HATEOAS to Spring Boot RESTful Web ServiceIn this tutorial, you will learn how to create an instance of @LoadBalanced RestTemplate and make it communicate with an internal microservice. For a step-by-step series of video lessons, please check this page: Spring Boot Microservices and Spring Cloud. Create RestTemplate Bean To create an instance of RestTemplate, you will need to first make sure…
Read More @LoadBalanced RestTemplate Call Internal MicroserviceIn this Spring Security tutorial, you will learn how to use the @PreAuthorize annotation to secure method invocation. You can use the @PreAuthorize annotation to secure either method in a Controller class or a method in a service layer class. There are other useful method-level security annotations like the ones below. It is useful to…
Read More Spring Security @PreAuthorize Annotation ExampleIn this tutorial, you will learn how to make Zuul API Gateway pass an Authorization header to a downstream Microservice. To learn how to make Spring Boot Microservice read HTTP Request headers, please read this tutorial: Read HTTP Request Header in Spring MVC. Configure Zuul API Gateway to Forward an Authorization Header By default, Zuul…
Read More Pass Authorization Header to Downstream MicroserviceIn this tutorial, I will share how to generate a self-signed certificate and enable HTTPS/SSL support in a Spring Boot application. You will also learn how to configure the RestTemplate HTTP client to use the same self-signed certificate to communicate with your Web Service over HTTPS. Let’s start by generating a self-signed certificate. Generate Self-Signed…
Read More Enable HTTPs/SSL in Spring Boot AppIn this Spring Boot tutorial, you will learn how to get the details of the currently authenticated principal user. There is more than one way to get currently authenticated user details and in this blog post, I am going to share with you a few. Most likely you already have Spring Security configured for your…
Read More Spring Security. Get Authenticated Principal Details.In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a console-based Spring Boot application that you can run in the terminal window on your computer. You will also learn to pass command-line arguments to your Spring Boot console-based application. For more Spring Boot tutorials and video lessons check this page: Spring Boot tutorials and video lessons.…
Read More Spring Boot Console ApplicationIn this tutorial, you will learn a few ways how to run your code when Spring Bean has initialized. There are other ways that are not mentioned in this tutorial, but the three mentioned here are my favourite. Using @PostConstruct One of the ways to run your code right after a Bean has been initialized…
Read More Run Code When Spring Bean Is Initialized