How Can I Tell Controller Specs to Use the Signed OAuth Request

Question

I am building a 2-Legged OAuth provider for my api. Everything is hooked up properly and I can make signed calls from the rails console. The problem I have is that I am having trouble integrating OAuth into the controller_spec.

Here is an example of a working call on my server:

coneybeare $ rails c test
Loading test environment (Rails 3.2.0)
rails test: main 
>> consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("one_key", "MyString", :site => [REDACTED])
# => #<OAuth::Consumer:0x007f9d01252268 @key="one_key", @secret="MyString", @options={:signature_method=>"HMAC-SHA1", :request_token_path=>"/oauth/request_token", :authorize_path=>"/oauth/authorize", :access_token_path=>"/oauth/access_token", :proxy=>nil, :scheme=>:header, :http_method=>:post, :oauth_version=>"1.0", :site=>[REDACTED]}>  

ruby: main 
>> req = consumer.create_signed_request(:get, "/api/v1/client_applications.json", nil)
# => #<Net::HTTP::Get GET>  

ruby: main 
>> res = Net::HTTP.start([REDACTED]) {|http| http.request(req) }
# => #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>  

ruby: main 
>> puts res.body
{"client_applications":[{"id":119059960,"name":"FooBar1","url":"http://test1.com"},{"id":504489040,"name":"FooBar2","url":"http://test2.com"}]}
# => nil  

And here is what I am doing in my controller tests:

require 'oauth/client/action_controller_request'
describe Api::ClientApplicationsController do
  include OAuthControllerSpecHelper
  …
  … 
    it "assigns all client_applications as @client_applications" do
      consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new("one_key", "MyString", :site => [REDACTED])
      ActionController::TestRequest.use_oauth=true
      @request.configure_oauth(consumer)
      @request.apply_oauth!
      puts "request.env['Authorization'] = #{@request.env['Authorization']}"
      get :index, {:api_version => 'v1', :format => :json}
      response.should be_success # Just this for now until I can get authorization, then proper controller testing
    end
end

The output of that test:

request.env['Authorization'] = OAuth oauth_consumer_key="one_key", oauth_nonce="gzAbvBSWyFtIYKfuokMAdu6VnH39EHeXvebbH2qUtE", oauth_signature="juBkJo5K0WLu9mYqHVC3Ar%2FATUs%3D", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1328474800", oauth_version="1.0"
1) Api::ClientApplicationsController GET index assigns all client_applications as @client_applications
   Failure/Error: response.should be_success
     expected success? to return true, got false

And the corresponding server call from the rails log:

Processing by Api::ClientApplicationsController#index as JSON
  Parameters: {"api_version"=>1}
  Rendered text template (0.0ms)
Filter chain halted as #<OAuth::Controllers::ApplicationControllerMethods::Filter:0x007f85a51a8858 @options={:interactive=>false, :strategies=>:two_legged}, @strategies=[:two_legged]> rendered or redirected
Completed 401 Unauthorized in 15ms (Views: 14.1ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)
   (0.2ms)  ROLLBACK

I just can't figure out why it's not working :/ Am I making an obvious mistake?

Answer 1

Turns out that the best way to test my controller was the simplest as well. Instead of trying to sign each test so the controller gets the right information (something that indeed does belong in a request spec not a controller spec), I figured out that I could just give the controller the information it needed manually.

To do this, I simply had to stub 2 methods:

fixtures :client_applications
before(:each) do
  @client_application1 = client_applications(:client_application1)
  Api::ClientApplicationsController::Authenticator.any_instance.stub(:allow?).and_return(true)
  controller.stub(:client_application).and_return(@client_application1)
end

Stubbing the allow? method caused the rack auth to be fooled into thinking it was authenticated. allow? also set the client_application based on the credentials though, so I had to stub that as well. Now that the auth is out of the way, I can test my controller properly.