Adding additional details to principal object stored in spring security context

Here is what you need:

1. Extend spring User (org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.User) class and what ever properties you need.
2. Extend spring UserDetailsService (org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService) and fill the above object. Override loadUserByUsername and return your extended user class
3. Set your custom UserDetailsService in AuthenticationManagerBuilder

For example

public class CurrentUser extends User{

   //This constructor is a must
    public CurrentUser(String username, String password, boolean enabled, boolean accountNonExpired,
            boolean credentialsNonExpired, boolean accountNonLocked,
            Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authorities) {
        super(username, password, enabled, accountNonExpired, credentialsNonExpired, accountNonLocked, authorities);
    }
    //Setter and getters are required
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;

}

The Custom userdetails could be:

@Service("userDetailsService")
public class CustomUserDetailsService implements UserDetailsService {

@Override
public UserDetails loadUserByUsername(final String username) throws UsernameNotFoundException {

    //Try to find user and its roles, for example here we try to get it from database via a DAO object
   //Do not confuse this foo.bar.User with CurrentUser or spring User, this is a temporary object which holds user info stored in database
    foo.bar.User user = userDao.findByUserName(username);

    //Build user Authority. some how a convert from your custom roles which are in database to spring GrantedAuthority
    List<GrantedAuthority> authorities = buildUserAuthority(user.getUserRole());

    //The magic is happen in this private method !
    return buildUserForAuthentication(user, authorities);

}


//Fill your extended User object (CurrentUser) here and return it
private User buildUserForAuthentication(foo.bar.User user, 
List<GrantedAuthority> authorities) {
    String username = user.getUsername();
    String password = user.getPassword();
    boolean enabled = true;
    boolean accountNonExpired = true;
    boolean credentialsNonExpired = true;
    boolean accountNonLocked = true;

    return new CurrentUser(username, password, enabled, accountNonExpired, credentialsNonExpired,
            accountNonLocked, authorities);
   //If your database has more information of user for example firstname,... You can fill it here 
  //CurrentUser currentUser = new CurrentUser(....)
  //currentUser.setFirstName( user.getfirstName() );
  //.....
  //return currentUser ;
}

private List<GrantedAuthority> buildUserAuthority(Set<UserRole> userRoles) {

    Set<GrantedAuthority> setAuths = new HashSet<GrantedAuthority>();

    // Build user's authorities
    for (UserRole userRole : userRoles) {
        setAuths.add(new SimpleGrantedAuthority(userRole.getRole()));
    }

    return new ArrayList<GrantedAuthority>(setAuths);
}

}

Configure the spring security context

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
@PropertySource("classpath://configs.properties")
public class SecurityContextConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("userDetailsService")
    private UserDetailsService userDetailsService;

    @Autowired
    public void configureGlobal(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
        auth.userDetailsService(userDetailsService);
    }

It’s all done !

You can call (CurrentUser)getAuthentication().getPrincipal() to get you newly CurrentUser or set some properties.