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

I can suggest another solution (thus it working for me). I have an custom authentication provider, with complicated logic and I can't use http_basic mechanic at all.

You need to create special Action like this

 //TestAuthController.php
 public function authTestAction(Request $request)
 { 
   // you can add different security checks as you wish
   $user_id = $request->query->get("id");
   // find user  by $user_id using service or user provider service from firewall config
   $token = new UsernamePasswordToken($user, null, $firewallName, array($role));
    // or another authenticated token
   $this->container->get('security.context')->setToken($token);
 }

add routing_test.yml and plug it just as routing_dev.yml

Important thing that this authentication route must exists only in test enviroment, for security reasons.

 //app/config/routing_test.yml
 // ... the same routes as in routing_dev.yml
_testauth:
    pattern:  /__test
    defaults: { _controller: MyBundle:TestAuth:authTest }

Then in test just send client to this url

public function testSomething()
{
    $client = static::createClient();
    $client->request('GET','/__test',array('id'=>146));
    $this->assertTrue($client->getContainer()->get('security.context')->isGranted('ROLE_USER')) //it will pass;
}