Retrieving password salt with BCryptPasswordEncoder in Spring

Question

It appears that org.springframework.security.crypto.bcrypt.BCryptPasswordEncoder doesn't return the generated password salt:

public String encode(CharSequence rawPassword) {
    String salt;
    if(this.strength > 0) {
        if(this.random != null) {
            salt = BCrypt.gensalt(this.strength, this.random);
        } else {
            salt = BCrypt.gensalt(this.strength);
        }
    } else {
        salt = BCrypt.gensalt();
    }

    return BCrypt.hashpw(rawPassword.toString(), salt);
}

Question : what purpose is that designed for? How can this be used, since it doesn't return a salt, which should be stored for the password checking?

Answer 1

Apparently, the salt is part of the encrypted String, which is separated by $.

More information can be found here: How can bcrypt have built-in salts?