Spring security added prefix "ROLE_" to all roles name?

In Spring 4, there are two methods hasAuthority() and hasAnyAuthority() defined in org.springframework.security.access.expression.SecurityExpressionRoot class. These two methods checks only your custom role name without adding ROLE_ prefix. Definition as follows:

public final boolean hasAuthority(String authority) {
    return hasAnyAuthority(authority);
}
public final boolean hasAnyAuthority(String... authorities) {
    return hasAnyAuthorityName(null, authorities);
}
private boolean hasAnyAuthorityName(String prefix, String... roles) {
    Set<String> roleSet = getAuthoritySet();

    for (String role : roles) {
        String defaultedRole = getRoleWithDefaultPrefix(prefix, role);
        if (roleSet.contains(defaultedRole)) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}
private static String getRoleWithDefaultPrefix(String defaultRolePrefix, String role) {
    if (role == null) {
        return role;
    }
    if (defaultRolePrefix == null || defaultRolePrefix.length() == 0) {
        return role;
    }
    if (role.startsWith(defaultRolePrefix)) {
        return role;
    }
    return defaultRolePrefix + role;
}

Example usage:

<http auto-config="false" use-expressions="true" pattern="/user/**"
      entry-point-ref="loginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
    <!--If we use hasAnyAuthority, we can remove ROLE_ prefix-->
    <intercept-url pattern="/user/home/yoneticiler" access="hasAnyAuthority('FULL_ADMIN','ADMIN')"/>
    <intercept-url pattern="/user/home/addUser" access="hasAnyAuthority('FULL_ADMIN','ADMIN')"/>
    <intercept-url pattern="/user/home/addUserGroup" access="hasAuthority('FULL_ADMIN')"/>
    <intercept-url pattern="/user/home/deleteUserGroup" access="hasAuthority('FULL_ADMIN')"/>
    <intercept-url pattern="/user/home/**" access="hasAnyAuthority('FULL_ADMIN','ADMIN','EDITOR','NORMAL')"/>
    <access-denied-handler error-page="/403"/>
    <custom-filter position="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER" ref="customUsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter"/>
    <logout logout-url="/user/logout"
            invalidate-session="true"
            logout-success-url="/user/index?logout"/>
    <!-- enable csrf protection -->
    <csrf/>
</http>   <beans:bean id="loginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint"
            class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
    <beans:constructor-arg value="/user"/>
</beans:bean>

Spring security adds the prefix "ROLE_" by default.

If you want this removed or changed, take a look at

How to change role from interceptor-url?

EDIT: found this as well: Spring Security remove RoleVoter prefix