OAuth2 – Authorization Code Grant

OAuth2 has become the de facto in modern web application security.  If you are a front end, back end or mobile developer, chances are you have had to consume or secure  protected resources with OAuth2. As such, having a good understanding of OAuth2 is invaluable. When implementing or using OAuth2 in your application, you typically face with four different grant types. Knowing the differences between the four grant types and which one to use can be quiet confusing. In this blog post series, I go over the different grant types by providing examples. This post is part of the series about OAuth2. In this post,  I’ll cover the Authorization Code Grant and when it is appropriate to use it.

If you are not familiar with the jargons, this post may help.

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Backend API with Spring Boot, Spring Data and Neo4j.

Spring Boot has made it simpler than ever to get setup with Neo4j. Pretty much the only dependency you need to get started is the spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j, which includes a number of other Spring dependencies for all Spring magics, and neo4j ogm dependencies.

Three key players involve in the configurations for connecting to neo4j and doing data access operations utilizing Spring: Transaction Manager, SessionFactory and Configuration.

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Building backend API with Spring data, Hibernate, JPA.

In this post, I’ll go over the setup of a sample backend RESTful API which utilizes Spring and Hibernate to simplify database operations and transaction management over a relational database.

Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/taithienbo/bookapp

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Neo4j slow query caused SSLException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly

Recently I ran into the exception “SSLException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly“. My thoughts when seeing the exception were that the neo4j instance went down, some connection parameters have changed, issues with SSL certificates etc …  I did not think the code had an issue because all the integration tests had passed, and I verified everything worked on my local machine.

After debugging for a few hours, I realized the issue was because of fetching too much data at once. I was using a query Spring Data Neo4j to fetch all nodes of a label with depth 3. Because some of the nodes were dense, the query kept on running and eventually took down the server.

MATCH (n:`NodeCategory`) WITH n ORDER BY n.order MATCH p=(n)-[*0..3]-(m) RETURN p

If you see the message “SSL peer shutdown incorrectly“, besides connection parameters and configurations, be sure to watch out for slow queries or long operations.