Gotcha: Migrating from Spring Security 3.2.x to Spring Security 4.x
Here is a simple gotcha to keep in mind while migrating to newer Spring Security version 4.x from Spring Security 3.2.x What’s the problem? The Spring security configuration expressions hasRole(‘role_name’) and hasAuthority(‘role_name’) are no longer the same. The catch is: hasAuthority checks for any role name passed to the expression without prepending ‘ROLE_’ (which is … Read more