[FINERACT-724] Upgrade Spring Boot, Spring and Spring Security to their latest stable version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Labels: gsoc2019
• Assignee: Michael Vorburger
• Reporter: Vishwas Babu A J
• Created: 06/Mar/19 01:52
• Updated: 05/May/20 20:48
• Resolved: 24/Nov/19 20:26

Description

Fineract uses versions of spring (including spring security) and spring boot which have approached their EOL and needs to be updated to the latest stable releases.

Spring -> 5.2.x (expected to be released before GSOC starts)

Spring boot -> 2.2.x (expected to be released before GSOC starts)

 

This upgrade would likely throw up a number of issues which would need to be addressed. Some sample issues would be

• Deprecated methods which have now been removed. Ex: The codebases uses JdbcTemplate.queryForInt which would need to be replaced with queryForObject
• The implementation of custom Filters like TenantAwareBasicAuthenticationFilter would need to change as overridden methods like doFilter in OncePerRequestFilter are final in recent Spring releases

 

 

Issue Links

• blocks: FINERACT-918 Document how to run Fineract in IDEs like Eclipse & IntelliJ - great for easy debugging!
• is blocked by: FINERACT-730 Fix failing gradle task bootRun & can't run simple Spring Boot java -jar (without Tomcat)
• is blocked by: FINERACT-700 Upgrade ancient version of Gradle
• is blocked by: FINERACT-764 Run Integration Tests using Spring Boot IT support instead of on Tomcat started separately by gradle-tomcat-plugin
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #642
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #653