Cosec Integration

CoSec Spring Boot Integration

Make the smallest integration that fits the target application. Preserve its build tool, dependency-management style, HTTP stack, configuration format, and existing security boundaries.

Inspect first

Determine:

• Spring WebFlux, Spring MVC, or Spring Cloud Gateway; add exactly the matching CoSec transport.
• The CoSec version already managed by a BOM, version catalog, parent, or lockfile. Never copy a version from this skill.
• Whether policies are local-only or must initialize a shared repository.
• Whether Redis, OAuth, IP enrichment, tracing, OpenAPI, Kafka, or token revocation is actually required.

The starter already brings cosec-core and cosec-jwt. Prefer its Gradle feature capabilities because they include the integration and its runtime dependencies:

For Gradle, select a capability on the starter dependency:

implementation(platform(libs.cosec.bom))
implementation("me.ahoo.cosec:cosec-spring-boot-starter") {
    capabilities {
        requireCapability("me.ahoo.cosec:webflux-support")
    }
}

Declare the starter again for each additional capability. The module column is a mapping, not a complete dependency set. With Maven or a build that cannot select Gradle variants, use the BOM, starter, one transport module, and mirror the selected feature's runtime dependencies. In the current build, cache support also needs org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-data-redis and me.ahoo.cocache:cocache-spring-boot-starter, OpenAPI support needs org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator and org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-common, and Kafka support needs org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-kafka.

Minimal configuration

cosec:
  jwt:
    algorithm: hmac256
    secret: ${COSEC_JWT_SECRET}
  authorization:
    local-policy:
      enabled: true
      init-repository: true
      locations:
        - classpath:cosec-policy/*-policy.json

Keep the JWT secret outside source control. A blank secret fails startup while JWT is enabled. Supported algorithms are hmac256, hmac384, and hmac512; issuer and verifier must agree.

LocalPolicyLoader only parses files; authorization reads PolicyRepository. This bootstrap configuration therefore initializes the repository at startup and requires PolicyRepository and AppRolePermissionRepository beans. The cache capability supplies Redis-backed implementations; otherwise provide them explicitly.

Create policies under src/main/resources/cosec-policy/ using the configured pattern. A safe complete skeleton is:

{
  "id": "service-access",
  "name": "Service Access",
  "category": "access",
  "description": "Service endpoint access",
  "type": "global",
  "tenantId": "(platform)",
  "statements": [
    {
      "name": "Health",
      "action": "/actuator/health"
    }
  ]
}

Use $cosec-policy-author when the requested policy is more than this bootstrap rule.

Optional behavior

• local-policy.init-repository is false by default. The bootstrap above enables it because the repository is not otherwise populated from local files. Disable it only when policies are already stored elsewhere; use force-refresh only when overwriting repository state is intended.
• cosec.jwt.token-revocation.enabled=true needs a real TokenStore; the cache capability supplies the Redis-backed implementation. Without it, logout does not revoke tokens and the starter logs a warning.
• The cache capability and a StringRedisTemplate enable redisRateLimiter and redisGroupedRateLimiter. The auto-configured local-policy lifecycle starts after MatcherFactoryRegister, so bootstrap files may use these types. Configure their shared prefix with cosec.limiter.key-prefix; use per-policy strictFailure when Redis outage behavior must fail closed.
• With the starter's auto-configured Authorization, audit logging is enabled by default. The logging sink records denies at WARN and allows at DEBUG under me.ahoo.cosec.audit; the Kafka capability replaces it when a unique Kafka template is available. A custom Authorization bean is not wrapped automatically, so compose it with AuditingAuthorization explicitly.
• Set cosec.authorization.remote-ip.max-trusted-index to the real trusted-proxy depth. 0 ignores X-Forwarded-For.

Verification

Start the application or run its context test, then verify:

• policy resources are loaded with no skipped-file errors;
• an allowed anonymous request succeeds;
• an unmatched anonymous request returns 401;
• an authenticated but denied request returns 403;
• a tripped limiter returns 429;
• Redis-backed features work from more than one instance when cluster-wide behavior is required.

In a CoSec checkout, treat cosec-spring-boot-starter/build.gradle.kts and the *Properties.kt / auto-configuration classes under cosec-spring-boot-starter/src/main/kotlin as the source of truth for capabilities, defaults, and activation conditions.