Automatically migrate WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
If you’ve been working with Spring Security for a while, it should come as no surprise that from time to time, they deprecate the old, and guide you towards the new.
In 5.7.x such a change involves the often used WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
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In Spring Security 5.7.0-M2 we deprecated the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter, as we encourage users to move towards a component-based security configuration.
Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
And while there are blog posts, release notes, and even an instruction video to highlight the required changes, in the end you will have to change your code. But what all those sources so far have failed to cover, is that there’s now also an easier way to migrate your code, using OpenRewrite.