Spring Applications

Project: Catalog Service Security

The objective of this exercise is to secure the catalog service of the bookstore application using basic authentication.

1. Add the starter spring-boot-starter-security as Maven dependency.
2. Implement a security configuration class with bean methods that create
   • a password encoder that uses the bcrypt hashing function
   • an in-memory user details service with a fixed user with the role EMPLOYEE
   • a security filter chain such that basic authentication is used and adding/updating books is restricted to users with the EMPLOYEE role
3. Test the security constraints using the Postman utility.