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Make Authentication/SecurityContext Immutable

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Since Jun 14, 2022.

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NOTE: This was originally brought up as a question in gh-8322 this ticket is to resolve that question

Ideally we would provide Authentication implementations that are immutable to avoid race conditions. However, for historical reasons it is unfortunate that both Authentication and SecurityContext are mutable.

We should look into how we can make both of these immutable. What follows is a proposed set of tasks.

  • #16668
  • (breaking) Remove calls to setAuthenticated from implementations
  • Add SecurityContext#withAuthentication(Authentication)
  • Deprecate SecurityContext#setAuthentication

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