[FIXED] SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication() returning null

Issue

I want to manually bypass the user from spring Security using the following code:

User localeUser = new User();
UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken auth = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(localeUser ,null, localeUser .getAuthorities());
SecurityContext securityContext = SecurityContextHolder.getContext();
        securityContext.setAuthentication(auth);
        // Create a new session and add the security context.
        HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
        session.setAttribute("SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT", securityContext);
return "dummyLogin";

The dummy login page(handled by tiles)internally calls a different Request Mapping in the same controller where i am trying to get the Authentication something like this.

SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication()

Where i am getting null?

Solution

So, I found the actual problem! The issue was that I had marked the whole controller with security="none" in the security-context.xml. So, when it was bounced from the first link to the 2nd, it didn't pass any security context with it!! Sorry for the trouble, guys.

Answered By - Rajesh Wadhwa