jUnit测试中不存在grails.plugins.springsecurity软件包

Question

I am working on a grails application. In the application views and controllers are only grails components. Instead of using domains and services application have DTOs and BLs java files respectively.

I am writing junit tests in which I required to reauthenticate user using spring security service. But when I run the test it give me the following error:

[javac] ... error: package grails.plugins.springsecurity does not exist
[javac] import grails.plugins.springsecurity.SpringSecurityService;
[javac] ... error: package grails.plugins.springsecurity does not exist
[javac] private SpringSecurityService springSecurityService = ...

I have no idea why I am getting error even in import. Code:

import grails.plugins.springsecurity.SpringSecurityService;
....
SpringSecurityService springSecurityService = ...
...

OR

Is there any other better way to reauthenticate user in junit test?

I have googled how to authenticate user in junit test but does not found any solution working.

Answer 1

I'm not sure why this particular issue is happening, but you can't really test security with unit tests. Spring Security is implemented as a filter chain, so you need to create a request and apply the chain.

This could be properly mocked, but it would be a lot of work. Your best bet is to use functional tests, with a real running server and real requests. The risk of false positives with other approaches is way too high.