Question

I have problem with infinite loop in Grails app when rejectIfNoRule = true
I try to open home page ‘/’ and I am redirected to ‘/login/auth’ with an error

Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many
redirects.

It seems like the source of the problem is located in initialize method in org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.springsecurity.RequestmapFilterInvocationDefinition.java where following exception is silenced.

Exception initializing; this is ok if it's at startup and due to GORM not being initialized yet since the first web request will re-initialize. Error message is "Cannot load Requestmaps, \"requestMap.className\" property is not set

Unfortunately the first request is this one with infinite loop so how can I initialize Requestmap for GORM?

Environment:

• Groovy Version: 2.0.6
• Grails 2.2.0
• JVM: 1.7.0_07 Vendor: Oracle Corporation
• OS: Linux
• spring-security-core:1.2.7.3
• spring-security-ui:0.2

My Config.groovy:

• grails.plugins.springsecurity.securityConfigType = “Requestmap”
• grails.plugins.springsecurity.rejectIfNoRule = true

Requestmaps:

new Requestmap(url: '/js/**', configAttribute: 'IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY').save()
new Requestmap(url: '/css/**', configAttribute: 'IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY').save()
new Requestmap(url: '/images/**', configAttribute: 'IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY').save()
new Requestmap(url: '/login/**', configAttribute: 'IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY').save()
new Requestmap(url: '/logout/**', configAttribute: 'IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY').save()
new Requestmap(url: '/', configAttribute: 'IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY').save()

Answer 1

Error message is “Cannot load Requestmaps, \”requestMap.className\” property is not set

This is the reason for your error – when you’re storing request maps in the database you need an entry in Config.groovy telling the spring security plugin the name of the Requestmap domain class

grails {
  plugins {
    springsecurity {
      securityConfigType = SecurityConfigType.Requestmap

      // fully qualified class name of the Requestmap class
      requestMap.className = 'com.example.Requestmap'

      // these next two are the defaults but good to make them explicit anyway
      requestMap.urlField = 'url'
      requestMap.configAttributeField = 'configAttribute'
    }
  }
}