How to add a request interceptor to a feign client?

Question

I want every time when I make a request through feign client, to set a specific header with my authenticated user.

This is my filter from which I get the authentication and set it to the spring security context:

@EnableEurekaClient
@SpringBootApplication
@EnableFeignClients
public class PerformanceApplication {
    @Bean
    public Filter requestDetailsFilter() {
        return new RequestDetailsFilter();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(PerformanceApplication.class, args);
    }

    private class RequestDetailsFilter implements Filter {
        @Override
        public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {

        }

        @Override
        public void doFilter(ServletRequest servletRequest, ServletResponse servletResponse, FilterChain filterChain) throws IOException, ServletException {
            String userName = ((HttpServletRequest)servletRequest).getHeader("Z-User-Details");
            String pass = ((HttpServletRequest)servletRequest).getHeader("X-User-Details");
            if (pass != null)
                pass = decrypt(pass);
            SecurityContext secure = new SecurityContextImpl();
            org.springframework.security.core.Authentication token = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(userName, pass);
            secure. setAuthentication(token);
            SecurityContextHolder.setContext(secure);
            filterChain.doFilter(servletRequest, servletResponse);
        }

        @Override
        public void destroy() {

        }
    }
    private String decrypt(String str) {
        try {
            Cipher dcipher = new NullCipher();

            // Decode base64 to get bytes
            byte[] dec = new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(str);

            // Decrypt
            byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(dec);

            // Decode using utf-8
            return new String(utf8, "UTF8");
        } catch (javax.crypto.BadPaddingException e) {
        } catch (IllegalBlockSizeException e) {
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
        }
        return null;
    }
}

This is my feign client:

@FeignClient("holiday-client")
public interface EmailClient {
    @RequestMapping(value = "/api/email/send", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    void sendEmail(@RequestBody Email email);
}

And here I have a request interceptor:

@Component
public class FeignRequestInterceptor implements RequestInterceptor {
    private String headerValue;

    public FeignRequestInterceptor() {
    }

    public FeignRequestInterceptor(String username, String password) {
        this(username, password, ISO_8859_1);
    }

    public FeignRequestInterceptor(String username, String password, Charset charset) {
        checkNotNull(username, "username");
        checkNotNull(password, "password");
        this.headerValue = "Basic " + base64encode((username + ":" + password).getBytes(charset));
    }

    private static String base64encode(byte[] bytes) {
        BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
        return encoder.encode(bytes);
    }

    @Override
    public void apply(RequestTemplate requestTemplate) {
        requestTemplate.header("Authorization", headerValue);
    }
}

I don't know how to configure this interceptor to my client and how to set the header with the username and password. How can I accomplish that ?

Answer 1

You don't really need your own implementation of the FeignRequestInterceptor as there is already BasicAuthRequestInterceptor in the feign.auth package that does exactly the same.

With this said, you basically have almost everything set up already. All is left to do is to define the basicAuthRequestInterceptor bean with specific username and password:

@Bean
public RequestInterceptor basicAuthRequestInterceptor() {
    return new BasicAuthRequestInterceptor("username", "password");
}