Grails spring security alternative for deprecated SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_USERNAME_KEY

Question

I am developing a grails application where I need to fiddle with the Session variables to implement Custom Spring Security authentication and need to set the following-

request.session[SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_USERNAME_KEY] =
            TextEscapeUtils.escapeEntities(username)

Now this key comes from org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_USERNAME_KEY which is now deprecated. Can you please suggest me an alternative for this?

Answer 1

Yes I have faced the same problem. And it has a very simple alternative-

import grails.plugin.springsecurity.SpringSecurityUtils;

Now use SpringSecurityUtils.SPRING_SECURITY_LAST_USERNAME_KEY this will work and is not deprecated.