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Spring Security 6 & JWT Authentication · Lesson

Securing Endpoints with Custom Access Rules

Go beyond simple role checks by writing custom authorization logic in Spring Security 6 using AuthorizationManager, SpEL expressions, and request matchers.

Why Custom Access Rules?

Roles and methods cover most cases, but real apps need finer control: only the owner of a resource may edit it, or access depends on the time of day or a feature flag.

Spring Security 6 lets you express these rules declaratively or programmatically.

The authorizeHttpRequests DSL

In Spring Security 6 the modern way to secure URLs is authorizeHttpRequests. Each matcher maps a request pattern to an access rule.

http.authorizeHttpRequests(auth -> auth
    .requestMatchers('/public/**').permitAll()
    .requestMatchers('/admin/**').hasRole('ADMIN')
    .anyRequest().authenticated());

All lessons in this course

  1. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  2. Method-Level Security with Annotations
  3. HttpSecurity Configuration Deep Dive
  4. Securing Endpoints with Custom Access Rules
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