Testing scala Play (2.2.1) controllers with CSRF protection

Question

I\'ve been having some problems testing controllers that use Play\'s CSRF protection. To demonstrate this, I\'ve created a very simple Play application that minimally exhibi

Answer 1

One solution is to test using a browser, eg Fluentlenium, as this will manage cookies etc, so the CSRF protection should all just work.

The other solution is to add a session to the FakeRequest so that it contains a token, eg:

FakeRequest().withSession("csrfToken" -> CSRF.SignedTokenProvider.generateToken)

Obviously if you're doing that a lot, you can create a help method to do that for you.