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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
Book Image

Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

The Spring framework has been the go-to framework for Java developers for quite some time. It enhances modularity, provides more readable code, and enables the developer to focus on developing the application while the underlying framework takes care of transaction APIs, remote APIs, JMX APIs, and JMS APIs. The upcoming version of the Spring Framework has a lot to offer, above and beyond the platform upgrade to Java 9, and this book will show you all you need to know to overcome common to advanced problems you might face. Each recipe will showcase some old and new issues and solutions, right from configuring Spring 5.0 container to testing its components. Most importantly, the book will highlight concurrent processes, asynchronous MVC and reactive programming using Reactor Core APIs. Aside from the core components, this book will also include integration of third-party technologies that are mostly needed in building enterprise applications. By the end of the book, the reader will not only be well versed with the essential concepts of Spring, but will also have mastered its latest features in a solution-oriented manner.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating interceptors for login data validation


Interceptors of Spring 5.0 can still be used to implement audit trails, transaction monitoring, session tracking, and additional request functionalities. These components filter and evaluate all incoming requests before they reach the @Controller. This recipe will show how interceptors can be a great help for the authentication process and session management.

Getting started

This last recipe is an add-on to the Spring Security framework. Although interceptors are Spring MVC components, these support classes can help manage some parts of the security chain. This recipe will utilize ch04 and will update some of our context definition classes.

How to do it...

To apply an interceptor that will monitor and evaluate the /login.html request:

  1. Let us create a class of HandlerInterceptor type that keeps track of the access time of each user:
public class LoginInterceptor implements     
    HandlerInterceptor{ 
 
@Override 
public void afterCompletion(HttpServletRequest...