handle successful login event with spring security

Question

My Grails app uses the Spring Security plugin. Whenever a user successfully logs in I want to:

• store something in the session
• redirect them to a custom page (depending on their role)

I need to handle logout events similarly, which was pretty straightforward because the plugin provides a bean named logoutSuccessHandler that can be overriden. I was hoping to similarly find a bean named loginSuccessHandler, but no such luck.

I read the page in the plugin's docs about event handling, but neither of the event handling mechanisms appears to give me access to the current request or session.

Answer 1

If you want to do some stuff upon successful login. You can listen to InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent

class AuthenticationSuccessEventListener implements    
                       ApplicationListener<InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent> {


    @Override
    public void onApplicationEvent(InteractiveAuthenticationSuccessEvent event) {
         .......do some stuff here
    }
   }

And then register AuthenticationSuccessEventListener as a spring bean in resources.groovy You can do whatever you want here, however you wont be able to do redirect from listener.

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