Unit testing with Spring Security

Question

My company has been evaluating Spring MVC to determine if we should use it in one of our next projects. So far I love what I\'ve seen, and right now I\'m taking a look at th

Answer 1

Authentication is a property of a thread in server environment in the same way as it is a property of a process in OS. Having a bean instance for accessing authentication information would be inconvenient configuration and wiring overhead without any benefit.

Regarding test authentication there are several ways how you can make your life easier. My favourite is to make a custom annotation @Authenticated and test execution listener, which manages it. Check DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener for inspiration.