Spring MockMVC, Spring security and Mockito

Question

I\'d like to test a Spring Boot Rest controller, which is secured using Spring security, and use mocks inside it. I have tried with Mockito, but I thin

Answer 1

By default the integration looks for a bean with the name of "springSecurityFilterChain". In the example that was provided, a standalone setup is being used which means MockMvc will not be aware of the WebApplicationContext provided within the test and thus not be able to look up the "springSecurityFilterChain" bean.

The easiest way to resolve this is to use something like this:

    MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders
            // replace standaloneSetup with line below
            .webAppContextSetup(wac)
            .alwaysDo(print())
            .apply(SecurityMockMvcConfigurers.springSecurity())
            .build();

If you really want to use a standaloneSetup (doesn't really make sense since you already have a WebApplicationContext), you can explicitly provide the springSecurityFilterChain using:

@Autowired
FilterChainProxy springSecurityFilterChain;

@Before
public void startMocks(){
    controller = wac.getBean(RecipesController.class);

    MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders
            .standaloneSetup(controller)
            .alwaysDo(print())
            .apply(SecurityMockMvcConfigurers.springSecurity(springSecurityFilterChain))
            .build();

    MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
}