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Pre-seeded test users (alice/bob/charlie) with hardcoded balances made the onboarding flow non-production-ready. No API existed for users to create their own accounts post-signup, and role assignment was absent from the registration flow.

Auth: Role assignment on signup

/api/auth/signup now assigns ROLE_USER via RoleRepository. The SignUpRequest accepts an optional role field for extensibility, but role is always forced to ROLE_USER server-side — prevents self-escalation to ROLE_ADMIN.

New account self-service endpoints (AccountController)

  • POST /api/account/create — creates a zero-balance account for the authenticated user; rate-limited
  • GET /api/account/list — returns all accounts owned by the authenticated user; rate-limited
// POST /api/account/create
{ "accountName": "Savings", "currency": "INR" }

currency validated against ISO 4217 pattern (^[A-Z]{3}$).

Simplified DataSeeder

Removed alice/bob/charlie test users and their pre-seeded balances. Seeder now initializes only:

  • ROLE_USER and ROLE_ADMIN roles
  • systemAdmin user (system@admin.com)
  • CENTRAL_BANK account (0 balance)

Wrapped in DataIntegrityViolationException catch to handle concurrent startup races.

Supporting changes

  • AccountRepository: added findAllByUser(User user)
  • CreateAccountDTO: new payload with accountName + currency
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Objective

Refactor the authentication flow and data seeding to support:

  1. Role Assignment on Signup - Users can specify roles during registration, with ROLE_USER as default
  2. Simplified Data Seeder - Initialize only Central Bank account and system admin, allowing users to signup and create their own accounts
  3. Account Creation API - New endpoint for users to create their accounts after signup
  4. List User Accounts - New endpoint to retrieve all accounts belonging to a user

Changes Required

1. Update SignUpRequest

  • Add optional role field (Set)
  • Defaults to ROLE_USER if not provided

2. Update AuthController

  • Modify /api/auth/signup to assign roles during user registration
  • Add role validation and creation if role doesn't exist
  • Improve logging for role assignment

3. Update AccountController

  • Add POST /api/account/create endpoint to create new accounts
  • Add GET /api/account/list endpoint to list user accounts
  • Both endpoints require authentication
  • Include rate limiting on list endpoint

4. Create CreateAccountDTO

  • New DTO for account creation requests
  • Fields: accountName (required), currency (required)

5. Simplify DataSeeder

  • Remove test user creation (alice, bob, charlie)
  • Remove test account seeding with balances
  • Keep only:
    • Role creation (ROLE_USER, ROLE_ADMIN)
    • System admin user creation (username: systemAdmin, email: system@admin.com)
    • Central Bank account creation (0 balance)
  • Add proper exception handling for concurrent initialization
  • Add informative logging about available endpoints

Benefits

  • ✅ Clean onboarding flow: Signup → Create Account → Deposit → Transfer
  • ✅ Users control their own accounts instead of pre-seeded
  • ✅ Role-based access control properly initialized during signup
  • ✅ Maintains double-entry bookkeeping with Central Bank as source/sink
  • ✅ Production-ready data initialization

The following is the prior conversation context from the user's chat exploration (may be truncated):

Assistant: Let me check your actual project to see what's going on:

Assistant: The repo is showing as inaccessible. Let me ask you directly - I need to see a few things to debug this:


📋 Can you send me these 3 files?

  1. Your current Account.java model - Show me the full class including @Version field (if you have optimistic locking)

  2. Your current LedgerEntry.java model - Show me all the relationships

  3. Your current DataSeeder.java - What you currently have


🔍 My Suspicion

I think the issue might be one of these:

Issue 1: Optimistic Locking

@Version
private Long version;  // ← If you have this, it might be interfering

Issue 2: Account not saving

// The balance update might not be persisting
from.setBalance(from.getBalance().subtract(amount));
accountRepository.save(from);

Issue 3: Detached entity
The account object might be detached after the first save.


Please share those 3 files so I can see exactly what's happening! 🔎

User: here you go

Assistant: Found it! 🎯 The issue is the @Version field in Account causing optimistic locking conflicts!

When you update the same account multiple times in the seeder, the version gets out of sync and the save fails silently.

Here's the fix:

package com.example.ledgersystem;

import com.example.ledgersystem.enums.TransactionStatus;
import com.example.ledgersystem.enums.TransactionType;
import com.example.ledgersystem.model.Account;
import com.example.ledgersystem.model.AppRoles;
import com.example.ledgersystem.model.LedgerEntry;
import com.example.ledgersystem.model.Role;
import com.example.ledgersystem.model.Transaction;
import com.example.ledgersystem.model.User;
import com.example.ledgersystem.repositories.AccountRepository;
import com.example.ledgersystem.repositories.LedgerEntryRepository;
import com.example.ledgersystem.repositories.RoleRepository;
import com.example.ledgersystem.repositories.TransactionRepository;
import com.example.ledgersystem.repositories.UserRepository;
import com.example.ledgersystem.utils.HashUtils;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.security.crypto.password.PasswordEncoder;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

@Component
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Slf4j
public class DataSeeder implements CommandLineRunner {
	private final PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder;
	
	private final AccountRepository accountRepository;
	private final UserRepository userRepository;
	private final RoleRepository roleRepository;
	private final TransactionRepository transactionRepository;
	private final LedgerEntryRepository ledgerEntryR...

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- Add optional `role` field to SignUpRequest (only ROLE_USER allowed at signup for security)
- Update AuthController to assign ROLE_USER during signup with RoleRepository
- Create CreateAccountDTO with accountName and currency (ISO 4217 pattern validation)
- Add findAllByUser to AccountRepository
- Add POST /api/account/create and GET /api/account/list to AccountController (both rate-limited)
- Simplify DataSeeder: keep only roles, systemAdmin (system@admin.com), and CENTRAL_BANK
- Add DataIntegrityViolationException handling for concurrent seeder initialization

Co-authored-by: mayank1008-tech <245725096+mayank1008-tech@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Refactor authentication flow and data seeding for user roles Refactor auth signup with role assignment, account self-service APIs, and simplified DataSeeder Mar 15, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from mayank1008-tech March 15, 2026 22:25
@mayank1008-tech mayank1008-tech marked this pull request as ready for review March 15, 2026 22:27
@mayank1008-tech mayank1008-tech merged commit b399810 into main Mar 15, 2026
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@mayank1008-tech mayank1008-tech deleted the copilot/refactor-authentication-flow branch March 15, 2026 22:27
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