Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Authorization with the default key

Securing the REST API with basic authentication is exceptionally simplified by the Spring security framework. Merely adding the following entries in pom.xml provides basic authentication to our investor service app:

<dependency><groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId><artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId></dependency>

Now rebuild (mvn clean package) the application and restart it. It's time to test our APIs with the postman tool. When we hit the URL, unlike our earlier examples, we'll see an error complaining Full authorization required to access this resource:

The preceding error is due ...