1 Reply Latest reply on Aug 7, 2009 11:09 AM by cash1981

    Custom authentication fails with testng

    cash1981
    cash1981 Aug 4, 2009 3:15 PM

      Hi.


      I have a custom authentication from my app which doesnt use identitystore. I used to in my testng test case have:




      // disables security, since this is a FacesRequest pages.xml kicks in
invokeMethod("#{identity.setSecurityEnabled(false)}");

// the IdentityManager has an interface for creating user, later we might
// want to use our own service layer instead
IdentityManager m = IdentityManager.instance();
m.createUser("admin", "admin");
m.createRole("admin");
m.grantRole("admin", "admin");

// enables it again
invokeMethod("#{identity.setSecurityEnabled(true)}");



      However, since I use authenticator:
      <security:identity authenticate-method="#{authenticator.authenticate}"/>


      I cannot use the identitymanager to login anymore. I also cannot use the login.xhtml because it is too complicated. (I send email with onetime password etc).


      If I try to manually login in my test:


      invokeMethod("#{identity.setSecurityEnabled(false)}");
                    
Identity.instance().setUsername(name);
Identity.instance().setPassword(passwd);
//Add the username as role
Identity.instance().addRole(name);
Identity.instance().login();
                    
invokeMethod("#{identity.setSecurityEnabled(true)}");


      I get the following exception:



      [testng] WARN  [org.jboss.seam.security.jaas.SeamLoginModule] Error invoking login method
[testng] javax.el.ELException: java.lang.NullPointerException



      And I can see that it tries to run the authenticator method. Now my question is


      1. Can I somehow tell testng to not run authenticator for tests only, so that the above code would just login the test user?


      2. If that is not possible, how can I get the identitymanager to work programatically from the tests, even though I am havent enabled it in components.xml?


      3. How has anybody else with a custom login method done this? Can I see some examples?