spring-projects / spring-projects/spring-security

Add Principal -> Granted Authority Collection Abstraction

Open
#17,962 0 comments 0 reactions 1 assignee View on GitHub

@jzheaux is already working on this.

Since Sep 25, 2025.

for: team-attention in: core type: enhancement
Dominant language
Java
Stars
9.6k
Forks
6.3k
Avg merge
2d 11h
Merged PRs (30d)
52

Description

There are a number of places in Spring Security that issue granted authorities based on the principal, or loosely based on the principal. Here are a few:

  • AuthoritiesPopulator
  • GrantedAuthoritiesMapper
  • AuthorityGranter
  • JwtGrantedAuthoritiesConverter
  • OpaqueTokenAuthenticationProvider

It would be nice to create a common abstraction that each of these could adapt to and that each authentication provider can be easily configured with:

interface GrantedAuthoritiesProvider<P> extends Converter<P, Collection<GrantedAuthority>>

This will allow for configuring each authentication provider to issue authorities dynamically and independently from the user itself, since not all authorities are direct properties of the user.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.