In this blog post, you will learn a couple of ways you can disable Spring Security Configuration for your @WebMvcTest.
Disable Security Filters for @AutoConfigureMockMvc
One of the ways you can disable Spring Security filters in your tests, is to use the @AutoConfigureMockMvc annotation.
@AutoConfigureMockMvc annotation can be applied to a test class to enable and configure auto-configuration of MockMvc.
To exclude security filters in your MockMvc tests, set the addFilters property to false.
@WebMvcTest
@AutoConfigureMockMvc(addFilters = false)
public class UsersControllerWebLayerTest {
}
@MockMvcTest – excludeAutoConfiguration
Another way to exclude Spring Security filters when doing integration testing with MockMvc is to use the excludeAutoConfiguration property with @MockMvcTest annotation.
To exclude Spring Security configuration configuration, exclude the SecurityAutoConfiguration.class.
@WebMvcTest(controllers = UsersController.class, excludeAutoConfiguration = {SecurityAutoConfiguration.class})
public class UsersControllerWebLayerTest {
// Some code
}
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