FOSUserBundle - PHPUnit - Mock a user

Question

I am using Symfony with the FOSUserBundle and now I like to test some things like:

• Doctrine lifecycle
• Controller behind firewall

For those tests I need to be a specific user or at least in a user group. How do I mock a user session so that ...

• The lifecycle field like "createdAt" will use the logged in user
• The Controller act like some mocked user is logged in

Example:

class FooTest extends ... {
    function setUp() {
        $user = $this->getMock('User', ['getId', 'getName']);

        $someWhereGlobal->user = $user;

        // after this you should be logged in as a mocked user
        // all operations should run using this user.
    }
}

Answer 1

You can do this with LiipFunctionalTestBundle. Once you have installed and configured the Bundle, creating and user and log in in tests is easy.

Create a fixture for your user

This creates a user which will be loaded during tests:

<?php
// Filename: DataFixtures/ORM/LoadUserData.php

namespace Acme\MyBundle\DataFixtures\ORM;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\AbstractFixture;
use Doctrine\Common\DataFixtures\FixtureInterface;
use Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use Acme\MyBundle\Entity\User;

class LoadUserData extends AbstractFixture implements FixtureInterface
{
    public function load(ObjectManager $manager)
    {
        $user = new User();
        $user
            ->setId(1)
            ->setName('foo bar')
            ->setEmail('[email protected]')
            ->setPassword('12341234')
            ->setAlgorithm('plaintext')
            ->setEnabled(true)
            ->setConfirmationToken(null)
        ;
        $manager->persist($user);
        $manager->flush();

        // Create a reference for this user.
        $this->addReference('user', $user);
    }
}

If you want to use groups of users, you can see the official documentation.

Log in as this user in your test

As explained in LiipFunctionalTestBundle's documentation, here is how to load the user in the database and log in as this user:

/**
 * Log in as the user defined in the Data Fixture.
 */
public function testWithUserLoggedIn()
{
    $fixtures = $this->loadFixtures(array(
        'Acme\MyBundle\DataFixtures\ORM\LoadUserData',
    ));

    $repository = $fixtures->getReferenceRepository();

    // Get the user from its reference.
    $user = $repository->getReference('user')

    // You can perform operations on this user.
    // ...

    // And perform functional tests:

    // Create a new Client which will be logged in.
    $this->loginAs($user, 'YOUR_FIREWALL_NAME');
    $this->client = static::makeClient();

    // The user is logged in: do whatever you want.
    $path = '/';
    $crawler = $this->client->request('GET', $path);
}