Spring boot, disable security for tests

Question

I use spring boot version \"1.3.0.M5\" (I also tried version \"1.2.5.RELEASE\"). I added spring security:

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Answer 1

If you want to see what's being auto-configured, launch your web app and access the autoconfig endpoint (e.g., http://localhost:8080/autoconfig). Then search for 'Security' to see which 'AutoConfiguration' classes are being detected.

You can then disable auto-configuration of security by excluding those classes like this:

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { SecurityAutoConfiguration.class, ManagementSecurityAutoConfiguration.class })

Of course, you won't want to exclude them for production deployments. Thus you'll need to have a separate @Configuration class for production and tests.

Or if you want a detailed answer go for below-mentioned steps

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Add annotation @Profile(value = {"development", "production"}) to my implementation of WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter

@Configuration
    @EnableWebSecurity
    @Profile(value = {"development", "production"})
    public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

Now, in test/resources, create application-test.yml to define properties for test profile and add this -

# Security enable/disable
security:
  basic:
    enabled: false

Now, to your test cases, add this annotation to apply the active profile @ActiveProfiles(value = "test"). This is how my class looked -

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@ActiveProfiles(value = "test")
@IntegrationTest({"server.port=0"})
public class SampleControllerIntegrationTest {

Doing this will disabled security for tests. Best of luck!!!