How to unit test controllers that use springSecurityService?

Question

I have a user class like such:

class User {
    transient springSecurityService
    String displayName
    String password

    protected void encode         


        

Answer 1

In my case I tried to override SecUser's encodePassword() implementation -which calls springSecurityService.encodePassword().

I was surprised because I needed to override the class and the instance (if I didn't override any, it fails):

SecUser.metaClass.encodePassword = { 'a' }
user.metaClass.encodePassword = { 'b' }

any idea of why do I need this?