Disable security for unit tests with spring boot

Question

I'm trying to create a simple spring boot web project with security. I can launch the application fine and the security is working fine. However, I have some components that I want to test without security (or test at all -- I cant get the test working at all).

I get an exception indicating that it can't find an ObjectPostProcessor and thus can't bring up the container.

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor] found for dependency

14:01:50.937 [main] ERROR o.s.boot.SpringApplication - Application startup failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'fmpdfApplication.ApplicationSecurity': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter.setObjectPostProcessor(org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor); nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:334) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1210) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:537) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:476) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:303) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:299) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:755) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:757) ~[spring-context-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:480) ~[spring-context-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:686) ~[spring-boot-1.2.4.RELEASE.jar:1.2.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:320) ~[spring-boot-1.2.4.RELEASE.jar:1.2.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationContextLoader.loadContext(SpringApplicationContextLoader.java:103) [spring-boot-1.2.4.RELEASE.jar:1.2.4.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:68) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:86) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.DefaultTestContext.getApplicationContext(DefaultTestContext.java:72) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:117) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:83) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.prepareTestInstance(TestContextManager.java:212) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTest(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:200) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner$1.runReflectiveCall(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:259) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.methodBlock(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:261) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:219) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:83) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:68) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:163) [spring-test-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:137) [junit-4.12.jar:4.12]
    at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:78) [junit-rt.jar:na]
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:212) [junit-rt.jar:na]
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:68) [junit-rt.jar:na]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) ~[na:1.8.0_45]
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140) [idea_rt.jar:na]
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire method: public void org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter.setObjectPostProcessor(org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor); nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:649) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.InjectionMetadata.inject(InjectionMetadata.java:88) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.postProcessPropertyValues(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:331) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    ... 43 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.security.config.annotation.ObjectPostProcessor] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1301) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1047) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:942) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredMethodElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:606) ~[spring-beans-4.1.6.RELEASE.jar:4.1.6.RELEASE]
    ... 45 common frames omitted

I'm not even trying to test anything related to web or security or anything. I'm just unit testing one of my components. My Unit test (in groovy) is like:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = FmpdfApplication)
@ActiveProfiles(["test", "mockstore"])
class PdfUpdaterTest {

    @Resource PdfUpdater pdfUpdater
    ...

And my (relevant) gradle dependencies are:

compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc")
testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")

I have tried setting management.security.enabled=false security.basic.enabled=false But that didn't help

One other relevant bit of info: I needed to customize the security so I followed the pattern to:

@Configuration
@Order(SecurityProperties.ACCESS_OVERRIDE_ORDER)
protected static class ApplicationSecurity extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
        @Override
        public void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
    ..

Is this part of the problem? Is there a way to make this @Lazy if that's related?

Update: If I mark the unit test as @WebIntegrationTest then everything works -- but it starts up an embedded tomcat server. How can I disable spring security for unit testing non web things?

Answer 1

UPDATE to ANSWER: Another option i recently learned if I am using MockMvc and AutoConfigureMockMvc to test my controllers, i can just set secure=false on it to disable any security applicable to your controllers.

@AutoConfigureMockMvc(secure = false)

If not go with below for basic auth.

---

The exception you get is very different than what i was getting but if you want to disable the security while running test cases, you can trying using profiles and disabling the basic security using properties for test profile. This is what i did -

1. Added annotation @Profile(value = {"development", "production"}) to my implementation of WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter -

    @Configuration
    @EnableWebSecurity
    @Profile(value = {"development", "production"})
    public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

2. Now, in test/resources, create application-test.yml to define properties for test profile and add this -

    # Security enable/disable
    security:
      basic:
        enabled: false

3. Now, to your test cases, add this annotation to apply the active profile @ActiveProfiles(value = "test"). This is how my class looked -

    @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
    @SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class)
    @WebAppConfiguration
    @ActiveProfiles(value = "test")
    @IntegrationTest({"server.port=0"})
    public class SampleControllerIntegrationTest {

Doing this disabled the security for my test cases and i was able to access the authenticated urls. I hope this works for you too. Best of luck!!!

Answer 2

In my case, @AutoConfigureMockMvc(addFilters = false) helped me.

Example:

@WebMvcTest(MyController.class)
@AutoConfigureMockMvc(addFilters = false)
@TestPropertySource(locations="classpath:application-test.properties")
public class MyControllerTests {

Cheers

Answer 3

FmpdfApplication is likely annotated with @EnableAutoConfiguration (or with @SpringBootApplication which is meta-annotated with @EnableAutoConfiguration), and this will lead to Spring Security being picked up and configured via auto-configuration.

If you want to see what's being auto-configured, launch your web app and access the autoconfig endpoint (e.g., http://localhost:8080/autoconfig). Then search for 'Security' to see which 'AutoConfiguration' classes are being detected.

You can then disable auto-configuration of security by excluding those classes like this:

@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = { SecurityAutoConfiguration.class, ManagementSecurityAutoConfiguration.class })

Of course, you won't want to exclude them for production deployments. Thus you'll need to have a separate @Configuration class for production and tests.

Regards,

Sam

p.s. You might also find my answer to the following question useful as well: Spring-Boot module based integration testing

Answer 4

Try this one to disable the spring boot security for testing

---

@AutoConfigureMockMvc(secure = false)

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@WebMvcTest(SampleController.class)
@AutoConfigureMockMvc(secure = false)
public class SampleControllerIntegrationTest {

Answer 5

Have a try with Spring Security @WithMockUser to mock a user quickly in tests.

http://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/4.0.x/reference/htmlsingle/#test

Answer 6

If your application wasn't web base but you need spring-security jar as dependency and you don't want spring-boot's auto configurations for spring-security while testing, you can add

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.NONE)

in your test class.

Answer 7

For me, I updated my test annotations to fix it. It works ok now.

From:

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@AutoConfigureMockMvc

To:

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@WebAppConfiguration
@ActiveProfiles(value = "test")
@AutoConfigureMockMvc(addFilters = false)

Answer 8

Nothing worked for me until I finally found this solution:

@Bean
@Profile("integration-test")
public WebSecurityCustomizer webSecurityCustomizer() {
    return (web) -> web.ignoring()
            .antMatchers("/**");
}

And use profile "integration-test" for tests.

Answer 9

You can just add this annotation to your test class: @AutoConfigureMockMvc(addFilters = false)

Answer 10

If you want to solve the problem using the application.yml you could do the following (solution is same as the accepted answer of Sam Brannen but with property file). If not yet present, create an application.yml in the test-folder.

   spring:
     profiles:
       active: integration-test
   autoconfigure:
     exclude:
      - org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.security.servlet.SecurityAutoConfiguration
      - org.springframework.boot.actuate.autoconfigure.security.servlet.ManagementWebSecurityAutoConfiguration

Then you would set your Integration Test to:

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = RANDOM_PORT)
@ActiveProfiles("integration-test")

Answer 11

This is the solution I use in spring boot 2.7.x

This approach uses the profile mechanism.

When using test profile it will disable the security for all calls.

@Bean
@Profile("test")
public WebSecurityCustomizer webSecurityCustomizer() {
 //Since we added the Spring Security to pom.xml and the spring security default
 //Behavior is ... well to secure and block all traffic
 //This will disable the behavior when testing none secured related tests
 return web -> web.ignoring().anyRequest();
}

Answer 12

For me, the fix was to update my test annotations. I replaced:

@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = { MyApplication.class })
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

with

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
@ContextConfiguration(classes = MyApplication.class)

Answer 13

Another way can be using @ActiveProfile. Create a separate yml file like application-nosecurity.yml, with below content:

security:
  ignored: /**

Now, annotate the Test class with @ActiveProfile("nosecurity") in which you don't want to use security like below:

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = Application.class)
@ActiveProfile("nosecurity")
public class BlaBlaTest {

   ## Your Test Code 

}

Answer 14

If you have this error just on webMvcTest, you must exclude security class configuration for these tests :

@EnableWebSecurity
@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(prePostEnabled = true)
@Profile(value = {"!test"})
public class XXXX extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

Answer 15

Although I understand you wish to disable security, there is one annotation from Mockito allowing you to mock user

@WithMockUser(username = "Test", authorities = {"USER"})

You can use it with class to mock all methods, as well as with methods. Method will override class.

By doing this you can test your admin- specific methods. I find it usefull.

In controller tests you might be forced to mock userService as well as password encoder like below

@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
@WebMvcTest(Controller.class)
@WithMockUser(username = "Test", authorities = {"USER"})
class ControllerTest {

    @Autowired
    MockMvc mockMvc;

    @MockBean
    AppUserService userService;

    @MockBean
    PasswordEncoder passwordEncoder;

    @MockBean
    SomeBusinessService someBusinessService;