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Spring MVC Cookbook

By : Alexandre Bretet, Alex Bretet
Book Image

Spring MVC Cookbook

By: Alexandre Bretet, Alex Bretet

Overview of this book

Spring MVC is a lightweight application framework that comes with a great configuration by default. Being part of the Spring Framework, it naturally extended and supported it with an amazing set of recognizable annotations. External libraries can be plugged in and plugged out. It also possesses a request flow. Complete support of REST web services makes the Spring architecture an extremely consistent choice to support your front-end needs and Internet transformations. From the design of your Maven modules, you will achieve an Enterprise-standard for a stateless REST application based on Spring and Spring MVC with this book. This guide is unique in its style as it features a massive overview of practical development techniques brought together from the Spring ecosystem, the new JEE standards, the JavaScript revolution and Internet of Things. You will begin with the very first steps of Spring MVC's product design. Focused on deployment, viability, and maintainability, you will learn the use of Eclipse, Maven, and Git. You will walk through the separation of concerns driven by the microservices principles. Using Bootstrap and AngularJS, you will develop a responsive front-end, capable of interacting autonomously with a REST API. Later in the book, you will setup the Java Persistence API (JPA) within Spring; learn how to configure your Entities to reflect your domain needs, and discover Spring Data repositories. You will analyze how Spring MVC responds to complex HTTP requests. You will implement Hypermedia and HATEOAS to guide your customer's stateless conversation with the product and see how a messaging-service based on WebSocket can be configured. Finally you will learn how to set up and organize different levels of automated-tests, including logging and monitoring.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Spring MVC Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Storing credentials in a REST environment


This recipe presents a solution for storing credentials in RESTful applications.

Getting ready

The solution is a compromise between temporary client-side storage and permanent server-side storage.

On the client side, we are using HTML5 session storage to store temporarily the usernames and passwords encoded in base 64. On the server side, only hashes are stored for passwords. Those hashes are created with passwordEncoder. This passwordEncoder is registered in Spring Security, autowired, and used in the UserDetailsService implementation.

How to do it...

Client side (AngularJS)

  1. We have made use of the HTML5 sessionStorage attribute. The main change has been the creation of a httpAuth factory. Presented in the http_authorized.js file, this factory is a wrapper around $http to take care transparently of client-side storage and authentication headers. The code for this factory is as follows:

    cloudStreetMarketApp.factory("httpAuth", function ($http) {
      return...