How to Simulate Authentication with a Token in a Functional Test¶
Authenticating requests in functional tests might slow down the suite. It could become an issue especially when form_login is used, since it requires additional requests to fill in and submit the form.
One of the solutions is to configure your firewall to use http_basic in the test environment as explained in How to Simulate HTTP Authentication in a Functional Test. Another way would be to create a token yourself and store it in a session. While doing this, you have to make sure that an appropriate cookie is sent with a request. The following example demonstrates this technique:
// src/AppBundle/Tests/Controller/DefaultControllerTest.php
namespace Appbundle\Tests\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;
use Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\Cookie;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authentication\Token\UsernamePasswordToken;
class DefaultControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
private $client = null;
public function setUp()
{
$this->client = static::createClient();
}
public function testSecuredHello()
{
$this->logIn();
$crawler = $this->client->request('GET', '/admin');
$this->assertTrue($this->client->getResponse()->isSuccessful());
$this->assertGreaterThan(0, $crawler->filter('html:contains("Admin Dashboard")')->count());
}
private function logIn()
{
$session = $this->client->getContainer()->get('session');
$firewall = 'secured_area';
$token = new UsernamePasswordToken('admin', null, $firewall, array('ROLE_ADMIN'));
$session->set('_security_'.$firewall, serialize($token));
$session->save();
$cookie = new Cookie($session->getName(), $session->getId());
$this->client->getCookieJar()->set($cookie);
}
}
注解
The technique described in How to Simulate HTTP Authentication in a Functional Test is cleaner and therefore the preferred way.