Spring-Security: Call method after authentication

Question

I\'d like to track when users are logging in to my application. I have some code that I would like to execute right after the user is authenticated. The problem is, I can\'t fig

Answer 1

Best way is to create an application listener and register it with the spring security context.

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.event.InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent;

public class AuthenticationSuccessListener implements ApplicationListener<InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent> {

    @Override
    public void onApplicationEvent(InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent event) {
        System.out.println("User Logged In");

    }
}

Make sure to add the above class the spring-security.xml as a bean. There are lots of other types of security events listeners you can listen to, check the type hierarchy for a list of all the types of security events you can listen to.