Spring Security - Third Edition

ProviderManager

The ProviderManager class has removed the deprecated default constructor and the corresponding setter methods in favor of using constructor injection. It has also removed the clearExtraInformation property, since the AuthenticationException exception had the extra information property removed.

For example, you may have something like the following:

ProviderManager provider = new ProviderManager();provider.setParent(parent);provider.setProviders(providers);provider.setClearExtraInformation(true);

If so, the preceding code should be changed to the following code:

ProviderManager provider = new ProviderManager(providers, parent);

The clearExtraInformation property was removed since the AuthenticationException exception had the ...