Disable security for unit tests with spring boot

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple spring boot web project with security. I can launch the application fine and the security is working fine. However, I have some components t

Answer 1

FmpdfApplication is likely annotated with @EnableAutoConfiguration (or with @SpringBootApplication which is meta-annotated with @EnableAutoConfiguration), and this will lead to Spring Security being picked up and configured via auto-configuration.

If you want to see what's being auto-configured, launch your web app and access the autoconfig endpoint (e.g., http://localhost:8080/autoconfig). Then search for 'Security' to see which 'AutoConfiguration' classes are being detected.

You can then disable auto-configuration of security by excluding those classes like this:

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { SecurityAutoConfiguration.class, ManagementSecurityAutoConfiguration.class })

Of course, you won't want to exclude them for production deployments. Thus you'll need to have a separate @Configuration class for production and tests.

Regards,

Sam

p.s. You might also find my answer to the following question useful as well: Spring-Boot module based integration testing