How to debug Spring Security authorization annotations?

Question

I have spring security application in which want to enable annotations security (pre and post authorization). I also have small sample application in which i have implemented it already. Everything works. But moving configs to main applications failed. There is no errors in console. But annotations do not work. It seems, they are not readed at all. All configuration and component versions are completely the same.

There are

<security:global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled" /> 

records in security-context and servlet-context. But neither @Controller methods no @Service methods are secured with annotation in main application.

How can i debug it?

Solved!

After switch from < global-method-security secured-annotations="enabled" /> to pre/post annotations works fine.

Answer 1

You can add to your application.yaml:

logging.level.org.springframework.security: DEBUG

Or add to application.properties:

logging.level.org.springframework.security=DEBUG

Or add to your WebSecurityConfig annotation EnableWebSecurity with debug = true:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity(debug = true)
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
  // ...
}