In the past few posts, we’ve been exploring Spring Security with the long-term objective of setting up a user management system that mirrors common money-making setups often used in SaaS applications. The goal is to configure Spring Boot / Spring Security to handle a hierarchy of roles: This structure is one I’ve found commonly requested … Read more
In this post, we’ll explore how to use Spring Boot and Spring Security to manage access control for our application. Specifically, we’ll look at how to set up user roles to restrict access to certain pages based on the role of the currently logged-in user. This approach makes sure that only authorised users can view … Read more
In this blog post, we’re going to explore what seems like a fairly straightforward process at first glance: adding basic form login to a Spring Boot app. However, as with most things in the Spring Boot and Spring Security ecosystem, it’s rarely as simple as it sounds. There are several hurdles we will encounter on … Read more
Some readers of this blog may remember me from my time making and sharing Symfony (still the best PHP framework btw) training videos. I moved on from PHP generally a good few years back, but one of the things I miss most since moving primarily to JavaScript / TypeScript is the lack of a single, … Read more
In this post, we’re going to explore how to validate an incoming JSON payload in a Spring Boot application. I wanted to use this exercise as a way to learn both validation, and automated testing. So we’re going to see unit tests for the validation logic in isolation, and also how this comes together with … Read more
In this post, we’re continuing with our Spring Boot guestbook example, but this time we’ll be adding persistence by integrating a PostgreSQL database. While the overall process is fairly straightforward and well-documented, there were a few things that caught me off guard along the way. One challenge I faced was integrating Spring Data repositories with … Read more
In this blog post, I will continue building on the Spring Boot guestbook example by taking it a step further and integrating Thymeleaf templates. The goal is to have Thymeleaf views coexist alongside the REST endpoints, allowing users to interact with the guestbook either through a traditional Spring MVC interface or via RESTful API calls. … Read more
I’ve got an idea for a much larger scale Java project, but I want to work my way up from the bottom and make sure I’ve nailed the basics before diving in too deep. For a long while I’ve wanted to do more Java posts on here, but I couldn’t figure out a way to … Read more
Remember back to being a newb with Spring Boot? No? Well, feel free to tag along with my current experiences and chuckle away as you go. For today I wanted to run my first Flyway migration in a Spring Boot project, and for seemingly inexplicable reasons, the migration file never ran. OK, so let’s quickly … Read more
Recently I’ve started on the Java track over at Exercism. As practically a complete beginner to Java, I am still finding my way around the tooling, and in particular, IntelliJ IDE. As part of the Annalyn’s Infiltration exercise I was provided with 30 failing jUnit tests, where each of the tests is tagged like so: … Read more