grails spring security rest plugin

Question

I upgrade grails to 2.3.7 and spring security rest to 1.3.4. And all running smoothly.

I'm using postman for testing the rest login.

url: http://localhost:8080/grails-spring-security-rest-sample/api/login form-data: username = user, password = pass

But there's always return error code 400 Bad Request. Is there something wrong with the config or test?

Thanks, Didin

You are attempting to post form data when you should be posting xml or json data to the end point. If you use Chrome, you could use a plugin like Postman to test the REST endpoints. — dspies

dmahapatro dmahapatro · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-13T01:40:48

This is a POST request with content-type as application/json. Refer dev tool again during the call to /api/login, it should be clear.

This is driven by a setting provided by the plugin as below:

grails.plugin.springsecurity.rest.login.useJsonCredentials = true

If you wish to pass it as url param then switch the above off (in the app). By default setting is to use request url parameter as:

//default is true
grails.plugin.springsecurity.rest.login.useRequestParamsCredentials = true

In that case the request could look like:

http://localhost:8080/grails-spring-security-rest-sample/api/login?username=user&password=pass

Parameter name for username and password can also be customized by these settings:

grails.plugin.springsecurity.rest.login.usernameParameter=customusername
grails.plugin.springsecurity.rest.login.passwordParameter=custompassword