How to authenticate Supertest requests with Passport /Facebook strategy/?

Question

I\'m using Passport.js for authentication (Facebook strategy) and testing with Mocha and Supertest. How can I create a session and make authenticated requests with Supertest for

Answer 1

The general solution is to create a cookie jar that will be re-used between requests.

The following example isn't passport specific, but should work:

var request = require('request');

describe('POST /api/posts', function () {
    // Create a new cookie jar
    var j = request.jar();
    var requestWithCookie = request.defaults({jar: j}),

    // Authenticate, thus setting the cookie in the cookie jar
    before(function(done) {
        requestWithCookie.post('http://localhost/user', {user: 'foo', password: 'bar'}, done);
    });

    it('should get the user profile', function (done) {
        requestWithCookie.get('http://localhost/user', function (err, res, user) {
            assert.equal(user.login, 'foo');
            done();
        });
    });
});