PHPUnit CakePHP 4.X - mock up the identity object, but how?

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i written a webaplication with cakephp 4.x. In my controller(AppController.php) i have implements the following:

...
public function beforeRender(\Cake\Event\EventInterface  $event)
{

    #Load User_ID
    if($this->Authentication->getIdentity()){
        $identity = $this->Authentication->getIdentity();
        $user_id = $this->Authentication->getIdentity()->getIdentifier();
    } 

}
...

Now i written the phpunit test following:

...
private function loginAsAdmin() {
    $this->Users = TableRegistry::getTableLocator()->get('Users');
    $user = $this->Users->get(1);
    $this->session(['Auth.User'=> $user->toArray()]);
}
/**
 * Test loginAsUser method
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function testLoginAsAdmin(): void
{
    $this->loginAsAdmin();
    
    $this->get('/admin/dashboard');
    
    $this->assertSession(1, 'Auth.User.id'); //check if the user is logged in
}
...

But my identity object is allways empty. empty identity object

The object should actually look like this: the original object with data

i have no more ideas how to implement it. Can someone help me? :slight_smile:

2

I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think the modern Authentication middleware uses Auth.User as it’s identity key. It might be just Auth now. You can easily check.

This is a working test suite user login on a 4.x app with Authentication middleware and the new (and awesome) fixture factories:

    public function login($role, $keyId = null)
    {
        $person = PersonFactory::make()
            ->makeActor($role, $keyId);
        $user = TableRegistry::getTableLocator()
            ->get('Users')
            ->get($person->user->id, ['contain' => ['People']]);
        $this->session(['Auth' => $user]);
    }
3

Instead of setting session key to Auth.User use Auth key only:

$this->session(['Auth'=> $user]);

To review the session array you can debug $this->_requestSession property.

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Thanks @bizdev
You have helped me a lot. :slight_smile: