Spring Security - Third Edition

Implicit configuration of UserDetailsContextMapper

In order to configure a different UserDetailsContextMapper implementation than the default, we simply need to declare which LdapUserDetails class we want LdapAuthenticationProvider to return. The security namespace parser will be smart enough to instantiate the correct UserDetailsContextMapper implementation based on the type of the LdapUserDetails interface requested.

Let's reconfigure our SecurityConfig.java file to use the inetOrgPerson version of the mapper. Update the SecurityConfig.java file, as illustrated in the following code:

    //src/main/java/com/packtpub/springsecurity/configuration/SecurityConfig.java    @Override    public void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception ...