Publish Authorization Events on WebFlux

[joshiste]

When I use the reactive WebFilter in a webflux application no AuthenticationEvents are published

[rwinch]

Thanks for the report. This is currently blocked by https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-16481

[wyaeld]

@rwinch it is extremely frustrating for your users that this just silently fails with no clue as to why. If you are claiming that Spring Security works for a reactive stack, please update your documentation to be extremely explicit about limitations. Auditing is considered to be a first class capability of Spring Security.

Given @jhoeller comments on https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-16481 can you please clarify if there is a workaround or listener class implementation that someone can do in a Reactive Stack with Spring Security. I'm currently working on an application where auditing is not optional.

[rwinch]

An overdue response to @wyaeld Just because Spring Security does not publish events, doesn't mean you cannot achieve this. You are able to easily plug in custom success/failure handlers which can publish the events.

[wyaeld]

@rwinch Appreciate the reply. Not sure if we are on the same page. The issue that was a core feature of Spring Security no longer worked, without any documentation, using your reactive implementation.

That's a pretty big issue for someone depending on the reliability of your components. As a brief glance, it doesn't appear documentation currently indicates any caveats, but since this doesn't appear to have been treated as a major problem. The handful of linked issues appears to indicate some others are still struggling with it, nearly 3 years after it first reported.

The lack of support or response on this issue forced us to reassess our framework choices, and ultimately select something with a smaller, but more reasonable to understand and maintain implementation of reactive patterns.

[rwinch]

Thanks for the reply @wyaeld Sorry for the delayed response. Glad you found something that solved your problem.