Authenticating in the @WebMvcTest
Discover how to authenticate and test Spring Boot web layers using @WebMvcTest. Learn to simulate user logins with mock user services and verify controller security logic without a database. This lesson guides you through setting up stub user details and running tests to ensure proper access control in your application.
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Simulating user login
Since our UserController has all its methods secured, we need a way to simulate a user logging in so that we can do some actual validation on the controller’s logic.
The Spring Security test has some helper annotations like @WithMockUser and @WithUserDetails to help us. In our production security configuration, we use DatabaseUserDetailsService and ApplicationUserDetails classes.
As we ...