Basic REST Authentication Login/Logout Example Project

A few days ago, I needed a simple Spring-Boot service to do basic authentications via REST APIs. I wanted to login to users with simple rest request and perform some CRUD operations on my data model. After several hours of searching and examining different git-hub projects, I was mystified and frustrated because most of the projects were using thymeleaf and other technologies to handle authentication. So I started to learn about spring authentications and ask some of my friends to help. Finally I managed to write the current project to do what I wanted. I hope this project can help others to do the same job I wanted.

Acknowledgements

I want to appreciate Mohamad Zeinali and Mohsen Esmaeili who were kind enough to help me to write this project.

How to use?

You can use Linux curl command or Postman application to create REST requests to simply login to system and do some CRUD operations on a data model named Task

Sample REST requests

1) Login
  http://localhost:60500/user/login
  {
    "username":"admin",
    "password":"123456"
  }
2) Logout
  http://localhost:60500/user/logout
  {}
3) List Users
  http://localhost:60500/user/list
  {}
4) Get current user
  http://localhost:60500/user/current
  {}
5) Save user
  http://localhost:60500/user/save
  {
    "username":"user1",
    "password":"123456",
    "enabled":true
  }
6) Delete user
  http://localhost:60500/user/delete
  {
    "username":"user1"
  }
7) changePassword
  http://localhost:60500/user/changePassword
  {
    "password":"1234"
  }
8) List tasks
  http://localhost:60500/task/list
  {}
9) Save a task
  http://localhost:60500/task/save
  {
    "description": "clean the room"
  }
10) Delete a task
  http://localhost:60500/task/delete
  {
    "id": "f7f0b5e0-d540-428a-a3d9-fcfec7aab18f"
  }
11) Toggle complete a task
  http://localhost:60500/task/toggleComplete
  {
    "id": "66e31e26-98b3-4f47-96a7-c8ac14b49323"
  }