JWT Spring Security Demo

About

This is just a simple demo for using JSON Web Token (JWT) with Spring Security and Spring Boot 2. This solution is partially based on the blog entry REST Security with JWT using Java and Spring Security and the demo project Cerberus. Thanks to the authors!

Requirements

This demo is build with with Maven 3 and Java 1.8.

Usage

Just start the application with the Spring Boot maven plugin (mvn spring-boot:run). The application is running at http://localhost:8080.

There are three user accounts present to demonstrate the different levels of access to the endpoints in the API and the different authorization exceptions:

Admin - admin:admin
User - user:password
Disabled - disabled:password (this user is disabled)

There are three endpoints that are reasonable for the demo:

/auth - authentication endpoint with unrestricted access
/persons - an example endpoint that is restricted to authorized users (a valid JWT token must be present in the request header)
/protected - an example endpoint that is restricted to authorized users with the role 'ROLE_ADMIN' (a valid JWT token must be present in the request header)

I've written a small Javascript client and put some comments in the code that hopefully makes this demo understandable.

Generating password hash for new users

I'm using bcrypt to encode passwords. Your can generate your hashes with this simple tool: Bcrypt Generator

Using another database

Actually this demo is using an embedded H2 database that is automatically configured by Spring Boot. If you want to connect to another database you have to specify the connection in the application.yml in the resource directory. Here is an example for a PostgreSQL DB:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/jwt
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=postgres

Using certificate generation script

Running the script generates gen_cert.sh

cert.pem gateway.jks gateway.p12 gateway_passphrase.pem

Put cert.pem and gateway.jks into the project

The default configuration is as follows

jwt.keystore.filename=gateway.jks
jwt.key.aliase=gateway-identity-jks
jwt.keystore.password=123456