How to Log User from Functional Testing with Symfony

Question

I use FOSUserBundle for my User Authentication I have a controller, let's call it adminController which is reserved for User granted User::ADMIN_ROLE Everything works fine but I have an error when I try to write my functional Test

Inside my AdminControllerTest I have a method that try to test a page that need User::ADMIN_ROLE

My testAdminAccess() method

public function testAdminAccess()
{
    $session = $this->client->getContainer()->get('session');

    // the firewall context defaults to the firewall name
     = 'main';

    $user = $this->getUserByUsername('admin@yopmail.com');

    $token = new UsernamePasswordToken($user, null, $firewallContext, $user->getRoles());
    $session->set('_security_'.$firewallContext, serialize($token));
    $session->save();

    $cookie = new Cookie($session->getName(), $session->getId());
    $this->client->getCookieJar()->set($cookie);

    $this->client->followRedirects();

    $crawler = $this->client->request(
        'GET',
        'http://localhost/admin'
    );

    dump($crawler);
}

I'm always redirected to my login page

How can I keep the session to access some page that's protected by a specific Role?

What I'm already tried:

I'm using Symfony version 3.4

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '20 at 06:03

The best is to login the user normally submitting the username and password like a standard user would do, I use a function like this (adapt your paths):

/**
 * Log the test user for the connected tests.
 */
public function login(string $username = null, string $password = null): KernelBrowser
{
    $client = static::createClient();

    // Login page
    $client->request('GET', '/en/login/');
    $this->assertTrue($kernelBrowser->getResponse()->isOk());

    // Auth
    $token = $client->getContainer()->get('security.csrf.token_manager')->getToken('authenticate');
    $client->request('POST', '/login_check', [
        '_csrf_token' => $token,
        '_username' => $username ?? 'test',
        '_password' => $password ?? 'test',
        '_remember_me' => 'on',
    ]);

    $this->assertTrue($client->getResponse()->isRedirect());
    $client->followRedirect();

    return $client;
}

Thanks for your answer. The problem with the form is that I have a Two Factor Authentication :( — balzacLeGeek, Jun 27 '20 at 14:06

How to Log User from Functional Testing with Symfony

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