Mocking SecurityContext

[uris77]

I need to mock SecurityContext while doing an Integration Test. When I
run the app, I can access SecurityContext, but when I run an
Integration test, it fails because SecurityContext.getSubject()
returns null.

[Martin Krasser]

Am 08.10.11 08:12, schrieb uris77:

How do you think that mocking the SecurityContext is related to the
grails-jaxrs plugin? Can't you set a mock security context during
setUp() of the integration test? Since I've never used the Spring
security plugin, I cannot tell you how to do that but I wonder why
grails-jaxrs should need to know about that security context.

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[Michael Corum]

Well, I would suspect that it is because of the mocking environment that
jax-rs requires for integration tests. It essentially has its own versions
of the grails spring security contexts. This is why I was never able to
solve the problems with Spring-ldap and jax-rs in integration tests.

Mike

[Martin Krasser]

Am 09.10.11 20:41, schrieb Michael Corum:

> Well, I would suspect that it is because of the mocking environment that
> jax-rs requires for integration tests. It essentially has its own versions
> of the grails spring security contexts.

Where do you think the plugin is doing that? Can you point me to the
relevant piece of source code?

[Roberto Guerra]

I figured it out. So the reason I wanted to mock SecurityContext is because I have a function like so:

Response readAll(@Context SecurityContext sc){

def principal = sc.getUserPrincipal()

//Get user associated with principal and do stuff.

}

I need the user because I log what user modifies a record and I also need to check if the user has sufficient permissions to view/modify the record. I'm using the shiro plugin so there are other things going on and I realized I can actually forego the whole SecurityContext thingy by using org.apache.shiro.SecurityUtils.

Thanks anyway.

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