How to get Authenticated with spring security rest plugin in Grails - rest

Question

I'm using Grails version 2.4.3 . I am creating an application that supports RESTful APIs. Since access to these APIs should be authenticated , I tried out the Spring Security REST plugin. I checked out this example and what I could understand is , the /api/login controller is the authentication point which receives the user credentials in JSON format and after successful authentication it provides the acces token as response. I tried sending a POST request to /api/login/ with valid JSON data using the POSTMAN Rest Client. But it gives me the following error.
401 Unauthorized , Similar to 403 Forbidden, but specifically for use when authentication is possible but has failed or not yet been provided. The response must include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource.
I also tried using IntellijIDEA's REST Client but doesn't work.
Then i tried by sending AJAX Request to /api/login/ with valid JSON data
, but getting 401 on console. What is the problem here? Is this the correct login end point? How can i get authenticated using JQuery?

Answer 1

Try this
$.ajax({
url: " http://localhost:8080/AppName/api/login",
type: "POST",
crossDomain: true,
data: JSON.stringify({"username":"yourusername" , "password":"yourpassword"}),
contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
dataType: "json",
success: function (response) {
console.log(response);
},
error: function (xhr, status) {
alert("error");
}
}) });

Answer 2

You can try this code for authentication,I am sending user id and password in request header you can try as you wish :-
inject following services:-
def springSecurityService
def authenticationManager
and use following code
def login = {
final String authorization = request.getHeader("Authorization");
if (authorization != null && authorization.startsWith("Basic")) {
boolean authResult = authenticateUser(authorization)
if (authResult) {
render response.status
} else {
render authFailed(response)
}
} else {
render authFailed(response)
}
}
protected boolean authenticateUser(String authorization) {
// Authorization: Basic base64credentials
def base64Credentials = authorization.substring("Basic".length()).trim();
byte[] credentials = base64Credentials.decodeBase64()
String actualCredential = new String(credentials)
// credentials format like username:password
final String[] values = actualCredential.split(":", 2);
UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken authRequest = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(values[0], values[1]);
try {
def authentication = authenticationManager.authenticate(authRequest);
def securityContext = SecurityContextHolder.getContext();
securityContext.setAuthentication(authentication);
def session = request.session;
session.setAttribute("SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT", securityContext);
}
catch (BadCredentialsException exception) {
return false
}
return true
}
protected HttpServletResponse authFailedResponse(HttpServletResponse response) {
response.setStatus(401)
response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"nmrs_m7VKmomQ2YM3:\"")
return response;
}