Package org.springframework.security.web.authentication

Class AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter

java.lang.Object
org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean
org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter
All Implemented Interfaces:
jakarta.servlet.Filter, org.springframework.beans.factory.Aware, org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanNameAware, org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean, org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean, org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisherAware, org.springframework.context.EnvironmentAware, org.springframework.context.MessageSourceAware, org.springframework.core.env.EnvironmentCapable, org.springframework.web.context.ServletContextAware
Direct Known Subclasses:
UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter
public abstract class AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter extends org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean implements org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisherAware, org.springframework.context.MessageSourceAware
Abstract processor of browser-based HTTP-based authentication requests.

Authentication Process

The filter requires that you set the authenticationManager property. An AuthenticationManager is required to process the authentication request tokens created by implementing classes.

This filter will intercept a request and attempt to perform authentication from that request if the request matches the setRequiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher(RequestMatcher).

Authentication is performed by the attemptAuthentication method, which must be implemented by subclasses.

Authentication Success

If authentication is successful, the resulting Authentication object will be placed into the SecurityContext for the current thread, which is guaranteed to have already been created by an earlier filter.

The configured AuthenticationSuccessHandler will then be called to take the redirect to the appropriate destination after a successful login. The default behaviour is implemented in a SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler which will make use of any DefaultSavedRequest set by the ExceptionTranslationFilter and redirect the user to the URL contained therein. Otherwise it will redirect to the webapp root "/". You can customize this behaviour by injecting a differently configured instance of this class, or by using a different implementation.

See the successfulAuthentication(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, FilterChain, Authentication) method for more information.

Authentication Failure

If authentication fails, it will delegate to the configured AuthenticationFailureHandler to allow the failure information to be conveyed to the client. The default implementation is SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler , which sends a 401 error code to the client. It may also be configured with a failure URL as an alternative. Again you can inject whatever behaviour you require here.

Event Publication

If authentication is successful, an InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent will be published via the application context. No events will be published if authentication was unsuccessful, because this would generally be recorded via an AuthenticationManager-specific application event.

Session Authentication

The class has an optional SessionAuthenticationStrategy which will be invoked immediately after a successful call to attemptAuthentication(). Different implementations can be injected to enable things like session-fixation attack prevention or to control the number of simultaneous sessions a principal may have.

  • Field Details

    • eventPublisher

      protected org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher eventPublisher

    • authenticationDetailsSource

      protected org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationDetailsSource<jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,?> authenticationDetailsSource

    • messages

      protected org.springframework.context.support.MessageSourceAccessor messages

  • Constructor Details

    • AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter

      protected AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter(String defaultFilterProcessesUrl)
      Parameters:
      defaultFilterProcessesUrl - the default value for filterProcessesUrl.

    • AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter

      protected AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter(RequestMatcher requiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher)
      Creates a new instance
      Parameters:
      requiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher - the RequestMatcher used to determine if authentication is required. Cannot be null.

    • AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter

      protected AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter(String defaultFilterProcessesUrl, org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager authenticationManager)
      Creates a new instance with a default filterProcessesUrl and an AuthenticationManager
      Parameters:
      defaultFilterProcessesUrl - the default value for filterProcessesUrl.
      authenticationManager - the AuthenticationManager used to authenticate an Authentication object. Cannot be null.

    • AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter

      protected AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter(RequestMatcher requiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher, org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager authenticationManager)
      Creates a new instance with a RequestMatcher and an AuthenticationManager
      Parameters:
      requiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher - the RequestMatcher used to determine if authentication is required. Cannot be null.
      authenticationManager - the AuthenticationManager used to authenticate an Authentication object. Cannot be null.

  • Method Details

    • afterPropertiesSet

      public void afterPropertiesSet()
      Specified by:
      afterPropertiesSet in interface org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean
      Overrides:
      afterPropertiesSet in class org.springframework.web.filter.GenericFilterBean

    • doFilter

      public void doFilter(jakarta.servlet.ServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.ServletResponse response, jakarta.servlet.FilterChain chain) throws IOException, jakarta.servlet.ServletException
      Invokes the requiresAuthentication method to determine whether the request is for authentication and should be handled by this filter. If it is an authentication request, the attemptAuthentication will be invoked to perform the authentication. There are then three possible outcomes:
      1. An Authentication object is returned. The configured SessionAuthenticationStrategy will be invoked (to handle any session-related behaviour such as creating a new session to protect against session-fixation attacks) followed by the invocation of successfulAuthentication(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, FilterChain, Authentication) method
      2. An AuthenticationException occurs during authentication. The unsuccessfulAuthentication method will be invoked
      3. Null is returned, indicating that the authentication process is incomplete. The method will then return immediately, assuming that the subclass has done any necessary work (such as redirects) to continue the authentication process. The assumption is that a later request will be received by this method where the returned Authentication object is not null.
      Specified by:
      doFilter in interface jakarta.servlet.Filter
      Throws:
      IOException
      jakarta.servlet.ServletException

    • requiresAuthentication

      protected boolean requiresAuthentication(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)
      Indicates whether this filter should attempt to process a login request for the current invocation.

      It strips any parameters from the "path" section of the request URL (such as the jsessionid parameter in https://host/myapp/index.html;jsessionid=blah) before matching against the filterProcessesUrl property.

      Subclasses may override for special requirements, such as Tapestry integration.

      Returns:
      true if the filter should attempt authentication, false otherwise.

    • attemptAuthentication

      public abstract org.springframework.security.core.Authentication attemptAuthentication(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) throws org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException, IOException, jakarta.servlet.ServletException
      Performs actual authentication.

      The implementation should do one of the following:

      1. Return a populated authentication token for the authenticated user, indicating successful authentication
      2. Return null, indicating that the authentication process is still in progress. Before returning, the implementation should perform any additional work required to complete the process.
      3. Throw an AuthenticationException if the authentication process fails
      Parameters:
      request - from which to extract parameters and perform the authentication
      response - the response, which may be needed if the implementation has to do a redirect as part of a multi-stage authentication process (such as OIDC).
      Returns:
      the authenticated user token, or null if authentication is incomplete.
      Throws:
      org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException - if authentication fails.
      IOException
      jakarta.servlet.ServletException

    • successfulAuthentication

      protected void successfulAuthentication(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, jakarta.servlet.FilterChain chain, org.springframework.security.core.Authentication authResult) throws IOException, jakarta.servlet.ServletException
      Default behaviour for successful authentication.
      1. Sets the successful Authentication object on the SecurityContextHolder
      2. Informs the configured RememberMeServices of the successful login
      3. Fires an InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent via the configured ApplicationEventPublisher
      4. Delegates additional behaviour to the AuthenticationSuccessHandler.
      Subclasses can override this method to continue the FilterChain after successful authentication.
      Parameters:
      request -
      response -
      chain -
      authResult - the object returned from the attemptAuthentication method.
      Throws:
      IOException
      jakarta.servlet.ServletException

    • unsuccessfulAuthentication

      protected void unsuccessfulAuthentication(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException failed) throws IOException, jakarta.servlet.ServletException
      Default behaviour for unsuccessful authentication.
      1. Clears the SecurityContextHolder
      2. Stores the exception in the session (if it exists or allowSesssionCreation is set to true)
      3. Informs the configured RememberMeServices of the failed login
      4. Delegates additional behaviour to the AuthenticationFailureHandler.
      Throws:
      IOException
      jakarta.servlet.ServletException

    • getAuthenticationManager

      protected org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager getAuthenticationManager()

    • setAuthenticationManager

      public void setAuthenticationManager(org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationManager authenticationManager)

    • setFilterProcessesUrl

      public void setFilterProcessesUrl(String filterProcessesUrl)
      Sets the URL that determines if authentication is required
      Parameters:
      filterProcessesUrl -

    • setRequiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher

      public final void setRequiresAuthenticationRequestMatcher(RequestMatcher requestMatcher)

    • getRememberMeServices

      public RememberMeServices getRememberMeServices()

    • setRememberMeServices

      public void setRememberMeServices(RememberMeServices rememberMeServices)

    • setContinueChainBeforeSuccessfulAuthentication

      public void setContinueChainBeforeSuccessfulAuthentication(boolean continueChainBeforeSuccessfulAuthentication)
      Indicates if the filter chain should be continued prior to delegation to successfulAuthentication(HttpServletRequest, HttpServletResponse, FilterChain, Authentication) , which may be useful in certain environment (such as Tapestry applications). Defaults to false.

    • setApplicationEventPublisher

      public void setApplicationEventPublisher(org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher eventPublisher)
      Specified by:
      setApplicationEventPublisher in interface org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisherAware

    • setAuthenticationDetailsSource

      public void setAuthenticationDetailsSource(org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationDetailsSource<jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,?> authenticationDetailsSource)

    • setMessageSource

      public void setMessageSource(org.springframework.context.MessageSource messageSource)
      Specified by:
      setMessageSource in interface org.springframework.context.MessageSourceAware

    • getAllowSessionCreation

      protected boolean getAllowSessionCreation()

    • setAllowSessionCreation

      public void setAllowSessionCreation(boolean allowSessionCreation)

    • setSessionAuthenticationStrategy

      public void setSessionAuthenticationStrategy(SessionAuthenticationStrategy sessionStrategy)
      The session handling strategy which will be invoked immediately after an authentication request is successfully processed by the AuthenticationManager. Used, for example, to handle changing of the session identifier to prevent session fixation attacks.
      Parameters:
      sessionStrategy - the implementation to use. If not set a null implementation is used.

    • setAuthenticationSuccessHandler

      public void setAuthenticationSuccessHandler(AuthenticationSuccessHandler successHandler)
      Sets the strategy used to handle a successful authentication. By default a SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler is used.

    • setAuthenticationFailureHandler

      public void setAuthenticationFailureHandler(AuthenticationFailureHandler failureHandler)

    • setSecurityContextRepository

      public void setSecurityContextRepository(SecurityContextRepository securityContextRepository)
      Sets the SecurityContextRepository to save the SecurityContext on authentication success. The default action is not to save the SecurityContext.
      Parameters:
      securityContextRepository - the SecurityContextRepository to use. Cannot be null.

    • setSecurityContextHolderStrategy

      public void setSecurityContextHolderStrategy(org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolderStrategy securityContextHolderStrategy)
      Sets the SecurityContextHolderStrategy to use. The default action is to use the SecurityContextHolderStrategy stored in SecurityContextHolder.
      Since:
      5.8

    • getSuccessHandler

      protected AuthenticationSuccessHandler getSuccessHandler()

    • getFailureHandler

      protected AuthenticationFailureHandler getFailureHandler()