As part of Spring 3 MVC it is possible to inject the currently logged in user (Principle) object into a controller method.
E.g.
@Controller
public class MyController {
@RequestMapping(value="/update", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String update(ModelMap model, Principal principal) {
String name = principal.getName();
... the rest here
}
}
This is documented as part of the Spring 3 documentation here: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-ann-requestmapping-arguments.
This works in the production code. However I don't know how to test this. When I create an integration test (having set up spring security context as well) and call the controller handle method then the Principal is always null!
public class FareTypeControllerIntegrationTest extends SpringTestBase {
@Autowired
private MyController controller;
@Autowired
private AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter handlerAdapter;
private final MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
private final MockHttpServletResponse response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
@Test
public void testUpdate() throws Exception {
request.setRequestURI("/update");
request.setMethod(HttpMethod.POST.name());
... setup rest of request
ModelAndView mav = handlerAdapter.handle(request, response, controller);
.. rest of assertions
}
The tests are running correctly and everything except the Principal is null.
Any ideas?
TIA
Ayub