Authentication with Spring Security
Integrate Spring Security to protect your GraphQL endpoints and manage user authentication.
Why Auth for GraphQL?
Welcome! In this lesson, we'll integrate Spring Security with our GraphQL API. While GraphQL defines how to query and mutate data, it doesn't specify authentication or authorization.
Protecting your API is crucial to ensure only authorized users can access sensitive data and perform specific actions. Spring Security is a powerful and flexible framework for this.
Spring Security Basics
Spring Security is a comprehensive security framework for Spring applications. It provides authentication (verifying who you are) and authorization (what you're allowed to do).
- Authentication: Verifies a user's identity (e.g., username/password).
- Authorization: Determines if an authenticated user has permission to access a resource or perform an action.
We'll start with basic authentication, which is simple to set up for testing.
All lessons in this course
- Custom Error Handling in GraphQL
- Authentication with Spring Security
- Authorization with Directives and Context
- Rate Limiting and Query Depth Protection