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This article is part of a series:
• Spring Security Registration Series
• The Registration Process With Spring Security
• Registration – Activate a New Account by Email
• Spring Security Registration – Resend Verification Email
• Registration with Spring Security – Password Encoding
• The Registration API becomes RESTful
• Spring Security – Reset Your Password
• Registration – Password Strength and Rules
• The Registration Process With Spring Security
• Registration – Activate a New Account by Email
• Spring Security Registration – Resend Verification Email
• Registration with Spring Security – Password Encoding
• The Registration API becomes RESTful
• Spring Security – Reset Your Password
• Registration – Password Strength and Rules
• Updating Your Password (current article)
• Notify User of Login From New Device or Location1. Overview
In this quick article we’ll implement a simple “Change my own password” functionality available to the user after they register and log in.
2. Client Side – Change My Password Page
Let’s take a look at the very simple client side page:
<html>
<body>
<div id="errormsg" style="display:none"></div>
<div>
<input id="oldpass" name="oldpassword" type="password" />
<input id="pass" name="password" type="password" />
<input id="passConfirm" type="password" />
<span id="error" style="display:none">Password mismatch</span>
<button type="submit" onclick="savePass()">Change Password</button>
</div>
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var serverContext = [[@{/}]];
function savePass(){
var pass = $("#pass").val();
var valid = pass == $("#passConfirm").val();
if(!valid) {
$("#error").show();
return;
}
$.post(serverContext + "user/updatePassword",
{password: pass, oldpassword: $("#oldpass").val()} ,function(data){
window.location.href = serverContext +"/home.html?message="+data.message;
})
.fail(function(data) {
$("#errormsg").show().html(data.responseJSON.message);
});
}
</script>
</body>
</html>3. Update User Password
Let’s now implement the server side operation as well:
@PostMapping("/user/updatePassword")
@PreAuthorize("hasRole('READ_PRIVILEGE')")
public GenericResponse changeUserPassword(Locale locale,
@RequestParam("password") String password,
@RequestParam("oldpassword") String oldPassword) {
User user = userService.findUserByEmail(
SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getName());
if (!userService.checkIfValidOldPassword(user, oldPassword)) {
throw new InvalidOldPasswordException();
}
userService.changeUserPassword(user, password);
return new GenericResponse(messages.getMessage("message.updatePasswordSuc", null, locale));
}Notice how the method is secured via the @PreAuthorize annotation, since it should only accessible to logged in users.
4. API Tests
Finally, let’s consume the API with some API tests to make sure everything is working fine; we’ll start with the simple configuration of the test and the data initialization:
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
@ContextConfiguration(
classes = { ConfigTest.class, PersistenceJPAConfig.class },
loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
public class ChangePasswordApiTest {
private final String URL_PREFIX = "http://localhost:8080/";
private final String URL = URL_PREFIX + "/user/updatePassword";
@Autowired
private UserRepository userRepository;
@Autowired
private PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder;
FormAuthConfig formConfig = new FormAuthConfig(
URL_PREFIX + "/login", "username", "password");
@BeforeEach
public void init() {
User user = userRepository.findByEmail("[email protected]");
if (user == null) {
user = new User();
user.setFirstName("Test");
user.setLastName("Test");
user.setPassword(passwordEncoder.encode("test"));
user.setEmail("[email protected]");
user.setEnabled(true);
userRepository.save(user);
} else {
user.setPassword(passwordEncoder.encode("test"));
userRepository.save(user);
}
}
}Now – let’s try to change password for a logged in user:
@Test
public void givenLoggedInUser_whenChangingPassword_thenCorrect() {
RequestSpecification request = RestAssured.given().auth()
.form("[email protected]", "test", formConfig);
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("oldpassword", "test");
params.put("password", "newtest");
Response response = request.with().params(params).post(URL);
assertEquals(200, response.statusCode());
assertTrue(response.body().asString().contains("Password updated successfully"));
}Next – let’s try to change password given a wrong old password:
@Test
public void givenWrongOldPassword_whenChangingPassword_thenBadRequest() {
RequestSpecification request = RestAssured.given().auth()
.form("[email protected]", "test", formConfig);
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("oldpassword", "abc");
params.put("password", "newtest");
Response response = request.with().params(params).post(URL);
assertEquals(400, response.statusCode());
assertTrue(response.body().asString().contains("Invalid Old Password"));
}Finally – let’s try to change password without authentication:
@Test
public void givenNotAuthenticatedUser_whenChangingPassword_thenRedirect() {
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("oldpassword", "abc");
params.put("password", "xyz");
Response response = RestAssured.with().params(params).post(URL);
assertEquals(302, response.statusCode());
assertFalse(response.body().asString().contains("Password updated successfully"));
}Note how – for each test – we’re providing a FormAuthConfig to handle the authentication.
We’re also resetting the password via init() to make sure we use the correct password before test.
5. Conclusion
And that’s a wrap – a straightforward way to allow the user to change their own password after registering and logging into the application.
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