# Authentication - how to get associated data & tests error
**URL:** https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467
**Category:** Need Help
**Created:** [March 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467 "2020-03-14T17:46:28Z")
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### Author:  [@matibaski](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/matibaski)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467/1 "2020-03-14T17:46:28Z")
Hi there
I am currently developing on cakephp 4.0.x and I am using the new `cakephp/authentication` (v2.0). Works so far soo good.
I have two issues, I do not know how to solve…
First issue. In `AppController` I am checking if the user is logged in. If so, I want to pass the users data (with related `hasOne` Profile) to the template. I saw in the authentication book following section: [IdentityInterface on User class](https://book.cakephp.org/authentication/2/en/identity-object.html#implementing-the-identityinterface-on-your-user-class).
Now I managed to get the users’ profile by using the `ConnectionManager`, but this seems not like a good solution. Is there a better way to go, to use the `Profile` entity by cake?
```
// src/Model/Entity/User.php
use Authentication\IdentityInterface;
class User extends Entity implements IdentityInterface {
// ...
public function getOriginalData()
{
$conn = ConnectionManager::get('default');
$stmt = $conn->execute('SELECT * FROM profiles WHERE user_id = ' . $this->id);
$results = $stmt ->fetchAll('assoc');
$this->profile = $results[0];
debug($this); exit;
return $this;
}
```
The second issue. Since I installed the authentication plugin, my `phpunit` tests are failing. The `PagesControllerTest.php` file fails with 5 failures, but I did not change anything on the test files. I even let the `PagesControllerTest.php` use the default cakephp home file (`Pages/home.php`) with its original layout and content, but still.
Here are the errors:
```
There were 5 failures:
1) App\Test\TestCase\ApplicationTest::testBootstrap
Failed asserting that actual size 5 matches expected size 3.
/var/www/my_app/tests/TestCase/ApplicationTest.php:43
2) App\Test\TestCase\Controller\PagesControllerTest::testMissingTemplate
Failed asserting that 302 is between 400 and 429.
/var/www/my_app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/TestSuite/IntegrationTestTrait.php:797
/var/www/my_app/tests/TestCase/Controller/PagesControllerTest.php:68
3) App\Test\TestCase\Controller\PagesControllerTest::testMissingTemplateInDebug
Failed asserting that 302 is between 500 and 505.
/var/www/my_app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/TestSuite/IntegrationTestTrait.php:808
/var/www/my_app/tests/TestCase/Controller/PagesControllerTest.php:82
4) App\Test\TestCase\Controller\PagesControllerTest::testDirectoryTraversalProtection
Failed asserting that `403` matches response status code `302`.
/var/www/my_app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/TestSuite/IntegrationTestTrait.php:820
/var/www/my_app/tests/TestCase/Controller/PagesControllerTest.php:96
5) App\Test\TestCase\Controller\PagesControllerTest::testCsrfAppliedError
Failed asserting that `403` matches response status code `302`.
/var/www/my_app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/TestSuite/IntegrationTestTrait.php:820
/var/www/my_app/tests/TestCase/Controller/PagesControllerTest.php:109
FAILURES!
Tests: 59, Assertions: 16, Failures: 5, Incomplete: 49.
```
The errorcodes tell me that the authentication plugin is making issues here, because the `PagesControllerTest.php` wants to get its own error codes, but only gets 302 (unauthenticated). How can I turn that plugin off for testing purposes?
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### Author:  [@vovo98er](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/vovo98er)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467/2 "2020-03-18T07:10:36Z")
Second issue: With the `authentication` middleware active in your application you’ll need to simulate authentication credentials in your integration tests. You can read here: [https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/blob/master/docs/en/testing.rst](https://github.com/cakephp/authentication/blob/master/docs/en/testing.rst)
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### Author:  [@matibaski](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/matibaski)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2020, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467/3 "2020-03-18T08:56:47Z")
Thank you. Don’t know how I didn’t see that in the docs 🙂 .
Now I just need to fix the part with the associated data… Any idea?
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### Author:  [@vovo98er](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/vovo98er)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467/4 "2020-03-18T10:07:53Z")
You can try that…
> public function getOriginalData()
> {
> $profile = TableRegistry::getTableLocator()-\>get(‘Profiles’);
> $profile = $profile-\>find … //Query here
> $this-\>profile = $profile;
> debug($this); exit;
> return $this;
> }
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### Author:  [@matibaski](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/matibaski)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467/5 "2020-03-19T01:13:13Z")
Thank you!
Works like a charm. Don’t know how I didn’t came up with that solution. But thank you.
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### Author:  [@dreamingmind](https://discourse.cakephp.org/u/dreamingmind)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cakephp.org/t/authentication-how-to-get-associated-data-tests-error/7467/6 "2020-03-19T20:42:42Z")
You can add things (like your profile) to the Identity object (which is available after login) by setting a custom finder to use in your Identifier. In the Authentication configuration in Application.php do something like this:
```auto
$service->loadIdentifier('Authentication.Password', [
'fields' => $fields,
'resolver' => [
'className' => 'Authentication.Orm',
'userModel' => 'Users',
'finder' => 'AuthRecord',
],
]);
```
The `finder` key is where you name the finder you want.