spring-graphql-examples/websocket-authentication

Overview

GraphQL over WebSocket with authentication through the "connection_init" message. GreetingController demonstrates access to the authenticated user.

Features

• WebSocket client and server.
• Intercept "connection_init" message on client and server.
• Encode and decode JWT token.
• Context propagation and access to Authentication in GreetingController.
• Integration tests with live server.
• WebMvc or WebFlux as server transport.

Configuration

WebMvcSecurityConfig and WebFluxSecurityConfig configure the AuthenticationWebSocketInterceptor to perform authentication. See the reference docs.

To switch between WebMvc or WebFlux as the transport, comment in and out spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-websocket in build.gradle.

Running

1. Run GreetingApplication from your IDE, or ./gradlew bootRun from the command line to start the server.
2. Run GreetingClient, or ./gradlew clientRun to perform a subscription.

Or you can run the integration tests in GreetingApplicationTests.