How to functional test secured pages in Symfony2?

Question

Setup and information to reproduce the problem

• Symfony2.2 application
• LiipFunctionalTestBundle
• DoctrineFixturesBundle
• FOSUserBundle

For testing enviroment I use LiipFunctionalTestBundle and generate (from DoctrineFixtures) a fake SQLite database. It's configured correctly - I've been able to succesfully test my non-secured pages.

I've created a simple secured page under /secured/test with this view:

<h2 class="username">{{ app.user.username }}</h2>

1. I've tried with

   • http://symfony.com/doc/master/cookbook/testing/http_authentication.html

And I wanted to test this action with this assertion:

$client = static::createClient(array(), array(
    'PHP_AUTH_USER' => 'myUserName'
    'PHP_AUTH_PW'   => 'password',
));

$crawler = $client->request('GET', '/secured/test');

$count = $crawler
         ->filter('h2.username:contains("myUserName")')
         ->count();

$this->assertTrue($count > 0);

The result was Failed asserting that false is true.

1. I've tried with

   • http://symfony.com/doc/master/cookbook/testing/simulating_authentication.html

And I wanted to test this action with this assertion:

$this->logIn();

$crawler = $this->client->request('GET', '/secured/test');

$count = $crawler
         ->filter('h2.username:contains("myUserName")')
         ->count();

$this->assertTrue($count > 0);

Ofcourse I changed the logIn function to diffrent username.

The result was Failed asserting that false is true.

None of these works. Whats wrong?

I've tried many other methods, but

Answer 1

The solution to the problem was very simple:

In my DoctrineFixtures I've created new users.. but their accounts were not enabled.

Adding this code to fixture solved the problem:

    $user->setEnabled(true);
    $user->setExpired(false);
    $user->setLocked(false);

(becouse my test was trying to log on not enabled account, the response to "submit login form" was redirect to login page)