Spring Boot: Disable security for Spring Boot Unit Test

Question

Spring Boot version: 2.0.4.RELEASE
For the Spring Boot Test below, the test returns an unwanted 401 response:

"401" status, "error": "unauthorized"

What is the best way to disable Spring Security for the tests?
I tried a adding a configuration "security.basic.enabled=false" property like so:

@SpringBootTest(<br>
    webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT,<br>
    classes = TestApp.class,<br>
    properties = {
        "security.basic.enabled=false"
})

And also adding this annotation to the class:

@AutoConfigureMockMvc(secure = false)

But unfortunately the test still returns a "401" unauthorized error code.

Original test

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(
webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT,
classes = App.class
)

public class ExampleTest{

@Autowired
public void setup(@LocalServerPort int port) {
    RestAssured.port = port;
}

@Test
public voidtestMethod() {
// This test code is not important to my question.     
given().log().all().get("/resources").then().log().all().statusCode(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_BAD_REQUEST).body("error", equalTo("invalid_request")).body(not(containsString("error_reason")));
}
}

The class being unit tested is simple:

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
public class App {
@GetMapping("/resources")
public String[] resources(
        @RequestParam("mandatory_param") String mandatory,
        @RequestParam("valid_param") @NotNull String validParam) {
    return new String[]{"1", "2"};
}
...
}

Does anyone know how to disable spring security for the test? Thank you

Solution

Using both @SpringBootTest with a random port and @AutoConfiguration might be an issue. Can you try:

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebMvcTest(App.class)
@AutoConfigureMockMvc(secure = false)
public class ExampleTest{}

or

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { SecurityAutoConfiguration.class, ManagementSecurityAutoConfiguration.class })
public class ExampleTest{}

You can event add a custom profile(integration_test) and make:

security:
      basic:
        enabled: false

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@ActiveProfiles(value="integration_test")
public class ExampleTest{}

Update: Just found similar answer already in another SO question : Disable security for unit tests with spring boot

Comments

[Karthik R]

sure. Please look through the link which points to other answers. Those have been verified already as well.

[Admin]

This solution did not work (I had also tried stuff like this, from reading StackOverflow answers). I still get error status 401 for the below. @SpringBootTest( webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT, classes={TestApp.class}) @EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { SecurityAutoConfiguration.class}) public class MyTestClass {... Also using the WebMvcTest annotation comes up with an error, demanding you use the SpringBootTest annotation. So, back to square one, I'm afraid. But thanks for the suggestions.

[mfaisalhyder]

If you or any one still has some issues kindly check these posts: (1) - stackoverflow.com/questions/44412128/… (2) - stackoverflow.com/questions/39108765/…