Spring Test & Security: How to mock authentication?

Question

I was trying to figure out how to unit test if my the URLs of my controllers are properly secured. Just in case someone changes things around and accidentally removes securi

Answer 1

Here is an example for those who want to Test Spring MockMvc Security Config using Base64 basic authentication.

String basicDigestHeaderValue = "Basic " + new String(Base64.encodeBase64((":").getBytes()));
this.mockMvc.perform(get("").header("Authorization", basicDigestHeaderValue).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)).andExpect(status().isOk());

Maven Dependency

    
        commons-codec
        commons-codec
        1.3