Grails Spring Security 3 service springSecurityService is null - grails

Question

springSecurityService service in User is always null
I can't seem to reference the package itself in the following manner
import grails.plugin.springsecurity.*;
though spring security login page does appear, and gradle doesn't complain on anything missing.
seems like no DI is taking place.
User
package com.sciencecanvas.mykingdom
class User implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1
transient springSecurityService
String username
String password
boolean enabled = true
boolean accountExpired
boolean accountLocked
boolean passwordExpired
User(String username, String password) {
//this()
this.username = username
this.password = password
}
#Override
int hashCode() {
username?.hashCode() ?: 0
}
#Override
boolean equals(other) {
is(other) || (other instanceof User && other.username == username)
}
#Override
String toString() {
username
}
Set<Role> getAuthorities() {
UserRole.findAllByUser(this)*.role
}
def beforeInsert() {
encodePassword()
}
def beforeUpdate() {
if (isDirty('password')) {
encodePassword()
}
}
protected void encodePassword() {
password = springSecurityService?.passwordEncoder ? springSecurityService.encodePassword(password) : password
}
static transients = ['springSecurityService']
static constraints = {
username blank: false, unique: true
password blank: false
}
static mapping = {
password column: '`password`'
}
}
my build :
buildscript {
ext {
grailsVersion = project.grailsVersion
}
repositories {
mavenLocal()
maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
}
dependencies {
classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:$grailsVersion"
classpath 'com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-gradle:2.5.0'
classpath "org.grails.plugins:hibernate:4.3.10.5"
}
}
plugins {
id "io.spring.dependency-management" version "0.5.2.RELEASE"
id 'com.jfrog.bintray' version '1.2'
}
version "0.1"
group "monopolyserver"
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
apply plugin: "spring-boot"
apply plugin: "war"
apply plugin: "asset-pipeline"
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-web"
apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-gsp"
ext {
grailsVersion = project.grailsVersion
gradleWrapperVersion = project.gradleWrapperVersion
}
assets {
minifyJs = true
minifyCss = true
}
repositories {
mavenLocal()
maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
}
dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom "org.grails:grails-bom:$grailsVersion"
}
applyMavenExclusions false
}
dependencies {
//custom plugins
compile 'org.grails.plugins:spring-security-core:3.0.0.M1'
compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging"
compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator"
compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure"
compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
compile 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.36'
compile "org.grails:grails-dependencies"
compile "org.grails:grails-web-boot"
compile "org.grails.plugins:hibernate"
compile "org.grails.plugins:cache"
compile "org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache"
compile "org.grails.plugins:scaffolding"
//compile ':spring-security-core:2.0-RC5'
runtime "org.grails.plugins:asset-pipeline"
testCompile "org.grails:grails-plugin-testing"
testCompile "org.grails.plugins:geb"
// Note: It is recommended to update to a more robust driver (Chrome, Firefox etc.)
testRuntime 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.44.0'
console "org.grails:grails-console"
}
task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
gradleVersion = gradleWrapperVersion
}

Answer 1

Service injection in GORM entities is disabled by default since Grails 3.2.8. Because of that, if you want the service springSecurityService to get injected in the previous domain class you would need to turn on autowire.
grails-app/conf/application.yml
grails:
gorm:
# Whether to autowire entities.
# Disabled by default for performance reasons.
autowire: true

Answer 2

It's because you commented out this() in the constructor - that line of code calls the generated default constructor which does DI. This is described in the "what's new" section of the docs. Either delete the constructor and use the traditional map constructor, or restore that line of code.

Answer 3

You can try Holders.applicationContext.getBean('springSecurityService') instead of injecting it.