Create users using Spring Security and DMI

[Kah0ona]

**** EDIT: solved in the post below ****

Hello,

Maybe this is a Spring Security question not relevant for this forum, but my problem might be caused by smartGWT.

I am building a user management module, and I created a form that creates a new user in a mysql user table when submitted. I call dynamicform.saveData() for this, and I get the data through to the add(..) method. This add method internally does a call to getJdbcTemplate(), which returns null, and thus a NullPointerException. So my question is:

Question: if you call a method using DMI, are all the Spring beans initiated like specified in my applicationContext-security.xml? I am not really experienced in Spring, but do have some basic knowledge.

Anyone knows what is going wrong? If I actually start the server and watch the jdbcTemplate variable it is initialized. When the DMI comes in, it is null. I am basically using the implementaiton from the SpringSecurity thread at http://forums.smartclient.com/showth...pring+security ...

My code looks like this:
nl.sytematic.projects.Persons.server.security.SytematicJdbcDaoImpl:

public class SytematicJdbcDaoImpl extends JdbcUserDetailsManager
		implements
			IChangePassword {
...
	public DSResponse add(DSRequest req) {
		String username = (String) req.getFieldValue("username");
		String password = (String) req.getFieldValue("password");
		Boolean enabled = (Boolean) req.getFieldValue("enabled");

		if (!userExists(username)) {
			SytematicSaltedUser user = new SytematicSaltedUser(username,
				password, enabled, true, true, true,
					AuthorityUtils.NO_AUTHORITIES, "");
			createUser(user);

			//this makes that the password gets encoded
			changePassword(username, password);
		}
...
}

my users.ds.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<DataSource ID="users" serverType="sql" tableName="users"> 
  <fields> 
    <field name="username" type="text" length="50" primaryKey="true" required="true"/>  
    <field name="password" type="password" length="50" required="true"/>  
    <field name="salt" type="hidden"/>  
    <field name="enabled" type="boolean" required="false"/> 
  </fields>  
  
  <serverObject lookupStyle="new" className="nl.sytematic.projects.Persons.server.security.SytematicJdbcDaoImpl"/> 
</DataSource>

applicationContext-security.xml

...
  <security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager"> 
    <security:authentication-provider user-service-ref="jdbcUserService"> 
      <security:password-encoder ref="passwordEncoder"> 
        <security:salt-source ref="saltSource"/> 
      </security:password-encoder> 
    </security:authentication-provider> 
  </security:authentication-manager>  
  <beans:bean class="org.springframework.security.authentication.dao.ReflectionSaltSource" id="saltSource"> 
    <beans:property name="userPropertyToUse" value="salt"/> 
  </beans:bean>  

  <beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"> 
    <beans:property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>  
    <beans:property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sytematic"/>  
    <beans:property name="username" value="test"/>  
    <beans:property name="password" value="test"/> 
  </beans:bean>  
  <beans:bean class="org.springframework.security.authentication.encoding.ShaPasswordEncoder" id="passwordEncoder"/>  

  <beans:bean id="jdbcUserService" class="nl.sytematic.projects.Persons.server.security.SytematicJdbcDaoImpl"> 
    <beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>  
    <beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>  
    <beans:property name="enableGroups" value="true"/>  
    <beans:property name="enableAuthorities" value="false"/>  
    <beans:property name="usersByUsernameQuery"> 
      <beans:value>select username, password, enabled, salt from users where username = ?</beans:value> 
    </beans:property> 
  </beans:bean>  
...

[Kah0ona]

Hmm after reading some more, I tried to put the lookupStyle="spring". Sounds logical, once you know it of course, but I just failed to realize this. If you use 'lookupStyle="new"', the server-methods are called, but the whole spring context will not be loaded.


Took me an afternoon to figure out but now I am happy. Hope this helps at least someone :-)