Test roles access to controllers in symfony - symfony

Question

I'm asking myself how to tests with phpunit in symfony roles access.
For example, if i have an indexAction and 5 different roles in my security config, i want to be sure that user A will have a 401, user B a 403, user C a 500...
But it cause an issue: tests are really long to execute, because we have 5 functional tests by action.
Now, i'm doing that kind of thing:
/**
* #covers \App\Bundle\FrontBundle\Controller\DefaultController::indexAction()
*
* #dataProvider rolesAllAccess
*
* #param string $user
* #param integer $expectedCode
*
* #return void
*/
public function testRolesIndexAction($user, $expectedCode)
{
$client = $this->createClientWith($user);
$client->request('GET', '/');
$this->assertEquals($expectedCode, $client->getResponse()->getStatusCode());
}
The function createClientWith authenticate a client that i have defined in my dataProvider before. It makes exactly what i described before.
Do you have any idea on how doing that better or - at least - with better performances ?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Depends on your authentication method. I use JWT. Also, all my web tests extends ApiTestCase that extends WebTestCase. And In all WebTestCases I use a logged user. Logged use log in inside the setup method.
abstract class ApiTestCase extends WebTestCase
{
protected function setUp()
{
$client = static::makeClient();
$client->request(
'POST',
'/tokens', [
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password'
], [
// no files here
],
$headers = [
'HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'HTTP_ACCEPT' => 'application/json',
]
);
$response = $client->getResponse();
$data = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
$this->client = static::createClient(
array(),
array(
'HTTP_Authorization' => sprintf('%s %s', 'Bearer', $data['token']),
'HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json',
'HTTP_ACCEPT' => 'application/json',
)
);
}
}
And here an example of test:
class DivisionControllerTest extends ApiTestCase
{
public function testList()
{
$this->client->request('GET', '/resource');
$response = $this->client->getResponse();
$expectedContent = ' !!! put expected content here !!! ';
$this->assertEquals(
$expectedContent,
$response->getContent()
);
}
}
Your test could be
public function testRolesIndexAction($expectedCode)
{
$this->client->request('GET', '/');
$this->assertEquals($expectedCode, $this->client->getResponse()->getStatusCode());
}

Answer 2

Try to use this to call one time $this->createClientWith. I suggest to look here for more recommandation.