Spring Test & Security: How to mock authentication?

Question

I was trying to figure out how to unit test if my the URLs of my controllers are properly secured. Just in case someone changes things around and accidentally removes securi

Answer 1

Since Spring 4.0+, the best solution is to annotate the test method with @WithMockUser

@Test
@WithMockUser(username = "user1", password = "pwd", roles = "USER")
public void mytest1() throws Exception {
    mockMvc.perform(get("/someApi"))
        .andExpect(status().isOk());
}

Remember to add the following dependency to your project

'org.springframework.security:spring-security-test:4.2.3.RELEASE'