Spring Security hasRole() not working

I'm facing a problem when using Spring Security && Thymeleaf, specifically when trying to use the [hasRole](

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) expression. The 'admin' user has a role 'ADMIN' but `hasRole('ADMIN')` resolves to false anyway I try it

My html:

1.<div sec:authentication="name"></div> <!-- works fine -->
2.<div sec:authentication="principal.authorities"></div> <!-- works fine -->

3.<div sec:authorize="isAuthenticated()" >true</div> <!-- works fine -->
4.<span th:text="${#authorization.expression('isAuthenticated()')}"></span> <!-- works fine -->

5.<div th:text="${#vars.role_admin}"></div> <!--Works fine -->
6.<div sec:authorize="${hasRole('ADMIN')}" > IS ADMIN </div> <!-- Doesnt work -->
7.<div sec:authorize="${hasRole(#vars.role_admin)}" > IS ADMIN </div> <!-- Doesnt work -->
8.<div th:text="${#authorization.expression('hasRole(''ADMIN'')')} "></div> <!-- Doesnt work -->
9.<div th:text="${#authorization.expression('hasRole(#vars.role_admin)')}"></div> <!-- Doesnt work -->

results in:

1.admin
2.[ADMIN]
3.true
4.true
5.ADMIN
6."prints nothing because hasRole('ADMIN') resolves to false"
7."prints nothing because hasRole(#vars.role_admin) resolves to false"
8.false
9.false

I have enabled _use-expressions_ in my security.xml file

<security:http auto-config="true" use-expressions="true">

And also included the SpringSecurityDialect in my config

<bean id="templateEngine"
class="org.thymeleaf.spring4.SpringTemplateEngine">
<property name="templateResolver" ref="templateResolver" />
<property name="additionalDialects">
<set>
<bean class="org.thymeleaf.extras.springsecurity4.dialect.SpringSecurityDialect" />
</set>
</property>
</bean>

All the necessary dependencies in my pom.xml file



<!--Spring security-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>
<version>4.0.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

<!--Thymeleaf Spring Security-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.thymeleaf.extras</groupId>
<artifactId>thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity4</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

Role.java

@Entity
@Table(name = "roles")

public class Role implements Serializable {

@Id
@Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
private RoleType name;
//... getters, setters
}

RoleType

public enum RoleType {

ADMIN
}

And `User`has a Set of `Role`s

Why is `hasRole()` not working?

I appreciate your help, thank you


**Workaround**
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`th:if="${#strings.contains(#authentication.principal.authorities,'ADMIN')}"`