CakePHP 2.3 - Unit testing User Login

Question

I thought I have to ask here some help to my problem. I\'ve spend whole evening with this. I have a login method in UsersController like this:

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Answer 1

I use this testcase to override the cake Auth call and Session and check if the login is successful.

this is more of a generic solution that i use in my testing., to get the values put into the session after the user logs in and also to check if the login is successful.

<?php
App::uses('UsersController', 'Controller');
App::uses('AuthComponent', 'Controller/Component');
App::uses('CakeRequest', 'Network');
App::uses('CakeResponse', 'Network');

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = '';

class stubSession {
  public $data = array();

  public function write($key, $value){
    $this->data[$key] = $value;
  }

  public function read($key){
    if(array_key_exists($key, $this->data)){
      return $this->data[$key];
    } 
  }

  public function renew() {

  }

  public function setFlash(){

  }

  public function delete() {

  }

  public function check(){

  }
}

class stubRequest {
  public $data = array();

  function __construct($data) {
    $this->data = $data;
  }

  public function is() {
    return true;
  }

  public function clientIp(){

  }
}

class stubAuthComponent extends AuthComponent{

  public static $_session;

  public function __construct($args, $session){
    parent::__construct($args);
    $this->Session = $session;
    self::$_session = $session; 
    $this->request = new CakeRequest();
    $this->response = new CakeResponse();
  }

  public function loggedIn() {
    return self::$_session->read(self::$sessionKey) != array();
  }

  public function logout(){

  }

  public static function user($key) {
    $user = self::$_session->read(self::$sessionKey);
    return $user[$key];
  }
}

class UsersControllerTest extends UsersController {  

  function __construct($data){
    $this->User = ClassRegistry::init('User');
    $this->Session = new stubSession();
    $this->Auth = new stubAuthComponent(new ComponentCollection(), $this->Session); 
    $this->request = new stubRequest($data);
  }

  public function redirect(){

  }
}

class TestUsersController extends CakeTestCase {

  public function testLogin(){
    $_POST = array('User' => array('email' => 'mail@someemail.com', 'username' => 'mail@someemail.com', 'password' => 'abcd1234'));
    $usersController = new UsersControllerTest($_POST);
    $usersController->login();
    $login = $usersController->Auth->loggedIn();
    //debug($usersController->Session->data); //you can test the session key value in here
    $this->assertEquals($login, true);
  }
}

Answer 2

I got this working with the following code:

function testLogin() {

        //mock user
        $this->Users = $this->generate( 'Users', array(
                'components' => array(
                    'Security' => array( '_validatePost' ),
                )
            ) );

        //create user data array with valid info
        $data = array();
        $data['User']['student_number'] = 1234567;
        $data['User']['password'] = '[valid password here]';

        //test login action
        $result = $this->testAction( "/users/login", array(
                "method" => "post",
                "return" => "contents",
                "data" => $data
            )
        );

        $foo[] = $this->view;
        //debug($foo);

        //test successful login
        $this->assertNotNull( $this->headers['Location'] );
        $this->assertContains( 'reservations', $this->headers['Location'] );
        $this->assertNotContains( '"/users/login" id="UserLoginForm"', $foo );

        //logout mocked user
        $this->Users->Auth->logout();
    }