porting Java 8 code to Java 7

Question

Is it possible to port this fragment of code from Java 8 to Java 7?

    protected UserDetailsService userDetailsService() {
        return (username) -> {
            User u = crmService.findUserByUsername(username);
            return new org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User(
                    u.getUsername(), u.getPassword(), u.isEnabled(),
                    u.isEnabled(), u.isEnabled(), u.isEnabled(),
                    AuthorityUtils.createAuthorityList("USER", "write"));
        };
    }

Answer 1

You can do it in such way:

protected UserDetailsService userDetailsService() {
    return new UserDetailsService() {
        @Override
        UserDetails loadUserByUsername(String username) throws UsernameNotFoundException {
                User u = crmService.findUserByUsername(username);
                return new org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User(
                        u.getUsername(), u.getPassword(), u.isEnabled(),
                        u.isEnabled(), u.isEnabled(), u.isEnabled(),
                        AuthorityUtils.createAuthorityList("USER", "write"));
        }
    }

}

But definitely you should think about extracting it to normal class and just returning new object there