Authentication in functional tests in Symfony 2.1

Question

I am currently in the process of migrating a 2.0.* project to the current 2.1 beta of Symfony.

In my functional tests i currently have this code to create a client w

Answer 1

In my testsuite (working on 2.0 and now 2.1) I use a Base class WebTestCase that extends the Symfony2 WebTestCase class.

I have these two functions that create an anonymous client or a logged one in my tests:

static protected function createClient(array $options = array(), array $server = array())
{
    $client = parent::createClient($options, $server);

    self::$container = self::$kernel->getContainer();

    return $client;
}

protected function createAuthClient($user, $pass)
{
    return self::createClient(array(), array(
        'PHP_AUTH_USER' => $user,
        'PHP_AUTH_PW'   => $pass,
    ));
}

Then, in my Test classes, I use:

    $client = static::createClient();

to create an anon client and

    $client = static::createAuthClient('user','pass');

to create an authenticated one.

This works like a charm on 2.1