Spring Security Role Generator

This plugin facilitates easier implementation of the spring security core plugin's annotated controllers. It does this in two ways:

1. It provides a controller template that can be used during scaffolding. This controller comes preconfigured with CREATE VIEW EDIT and DELETE annotations for the given class.
2. To tie into the controller above a generate-roles script is provided that will generate the statements to create the roles for each class.

generate-roles "*"
generate-roles com.sample.MyClass

You can then take the generated statements and add it to your bootstrap for example.

The controller template

The plugin provides a custom controller template with the annotations already in place. you can install it by running:

install-secure-controller-template

This will copy the template into your src/templates folder. You can further customize it from there.

For people that already have a custom controller template, you can easily add the annotations to your template. Following the same conventions you simply add the import:

import grails.plugins.springsecurity.Secured

Then add the appropriate annotations to your methods from the list below.

@Secured('ROLE_CREATE_${className.toUpperCase()}')
@Secured('ROLE_VIEW_${className.toUpperCase()}')
@Secured('ROLE_EDIT_${className.toUpperCase()}')
@Secured('ROLE_DELETE_${className.toUpperCase()}')

Thats all it takes to secure your applications.