Using IBM App ID roles with Spring Security
This is something I've been meaning to write for a long time. If you're already familiar with how to set up App ID in a Spring Boot application, feel free to skip to the fifth step. That's where the juicy parts are. 1. Creating a project Let's start off by creating a new Spring Boot project. This link contains a Spring Boot project with the required dependencies: Spring Security, Spring Web and OAuth2 resource server. 2. Configuring App ID Next, let's create service credentials in our App ID instance. Notice that we gave it write permissions. You'll see why soon. While we're here, let's also add the "http://localhost:8080/login" redirect URL in the authentication settings : To make things easier, let's enable the Google provider in the "Identity Providers" tab. This way we can log in with an existing Google account. If you don't want to do this, it's also possible to create an account on Cloud Directo...