Question

I need to support both HTTP and HTTPS in my Spring Security file and dynamically switch between those at runtime.

So I am trying to create properties file which would contain one of any/http/https, but that won’t parse the XML config.

Spring Security config:

<sec:http entry-point-ref="portalEntryPoint">
    <sec:anonymous />
    <sec:intercept-url pattern = "/portal" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY"
            requires-channel="${user-security.login.channel}" />
    <!-- rest omitted -->
</sec:http>

Properties file:

user-security.login.channel=https

I am getting following error:

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-enumeration-valid: Value '${user-security.login.channel}' is not facet-valid with respect to enumeration '[http, https, any]'. It must be a value from the enumeration.

I am using Spring 3 and Spring Security 2. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you absolutely MUST then use profiles to configure your portal entry point. Obviously this means a lot of copy and paste in your spring config ….

Example from springsource docs :

<bean id="transferService" class="com.bank.service.internal.DefaultTransferService">
    <constructor-arg ref="accountRepository"/>
    <constructor-arg ref="feePolicy"/>
</bean>

<bean id="accountRepository" class="com.bank.repository.internal.JdbcAccountRepository">
    <constructor-arg ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>

<bean id="feePolicy" class="com.bank.service.internal.ZeroFeePolicy"/>

<beans profile="dev">
    <jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource">
        <jdbc:script location="classpath:com/bank/config/sql/schema.sql"/>
        <jdbc:script location="classpath:com/bank/config/sql/test-data.sql"/>
    </jdbc:embedded-database>
</beans>

<beans profile="production">
    <jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="java:comp/env/jdbc/datasource"/>
</beans>

link http://blog.springsource.com/2011/02/14/spring-3-1-m1-introducing-profile/