The issue I have is after the user is authenticated meaning user has signed in, I understand from the client side to logout a user, I delete the token from the local storage but the issue I have is how do I invalidate the token or logout from the serverside.
My intial approach was to make the logout API permit all in my SecurityFilterChain but when I try to grab the authenticated user from SecurityContextHolder after the user had signed in I was getting anonymousUser.
My second/current approach is I instead authorized LOGOUT API which means to access the API, a token has to passed in the header. Then I can then set SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication == false); and also clearContext(). With this approach I am able to get the logged in user but my questions are:
- Is this the right logic to implement a log out?
- I understand a token cannot be invalidated because it is
STATELESS. But is there a way to get around this? Because even after setting Authentication to false inSecurityContextHolderand clearing security contextSecurityContextHolder.clearContext();when I try accessing AuthenticatedAPIi.eCRUD operations, I am still able to use the token.
Here is my login and logout methods in my RestController Class
logout
@PostMapping(path = "/logout", headers = "Authorization")
@ResponseStatus(OK)
public ResponseEntity<?> logout() {
LOGGER.info("Trying to Logout ");
Authentication authentication = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
String username = authentication.getName();
LOGGER.info("Username {} ", username);
authentication.setAuthenticated(false);
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication);
SecurityContextHolder.clearContext();
return ResponseEntity.ok().body("Successfully logged out");
}
login
@PostMapping(path = "/login", consumes = "application/json", produces = "application/json")
@ResponseStatus(OK)
public ResponseEntity<?> login(@Valid @RequestBody UserDTO userDTO) {
Authentication authentication;
LOGGER.info("Authenticating {}", userDTO.getUsername());
var authenticationToken = confirmUser(userDTO); // returns a UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken
try {
authentication = authenticationManager.authenticate(authenticationToken); // Authenticate user password token
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(authentication); // Set the security context to the logged user
} catch (AuthenticationException e) {
LOGGER.error("Stack trace {}", e.getMessage());
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().setAuthentication(null);
throw new InvalidPasswordException("Wrong username or password");
}
LOGGER.info("{} has signed in", userDTO.getUsername());
return ResponseEntity.ok()
.header( AUTHORIZATION, tokenService.generateToken(authentication) )
.build();
}