Devtools: Enable automatic logins at dev time

[cbeams]

Per brainstorming with @rwinch:

I just went through the process of enabling remember-me authentication, essentially so I don't have to log into my application every time I re-start gradle bootRun.

It would be nice if Boot's devtools solved this by introducing a DeveloperLoginFilter or some such that would set the security context automatically with a fake user (or a username of my choosing, configured in application.yml). This approach would be like in kind to the recent additions to Spring Security Test, e.g. @WithMockUser, only happening at development runtime, not just test-time.

[spencergibb]

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[philwebb]

I wonder if saving session state between restarts would negate the need for this somewhat?

[rwinch]

@philwebb Thanks for the feedback. It will if you have an external place to store the session. I know many users for Spring Session are using an embedded Redis instance that will restart when the container restarts.

[philwebb]

@cbeams Do the recent updates in master that save sessions between restarts negate the need for this now?

[cbeams]

I haven't tried it yet, but perhaps it's a "good enough" measure. Given that I already have this solved for myself using remember-me authentication and that others have specifically been asking for sessions to survive restarts anyway, I don't mind this issue being closed as-is. Thanks for the follow-up.

On Jul 17, 2015, at 5:33 AM, Phil Webb notifications@github.com wrote:

@cbeams https://github.com/cbeams Do the recent updates in master that save sessions between restarts negate the need for this now?

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