In Spring MockMVC tests, how to chain visit of several webpages?

Question

I have a web application that requires Login. Upon login success, many session attributes are loaded, which will be needed by subsequent navigation of other web pages.

I am testing this web application using Spring test framework 4.12, using MockMVC.

How do I chain a second page visit action after the login page visit? Something like:

mockMvc.perform(post("/login").session(session).param("username", "Jack").param("password","Jack'sPassword"))
               .perform(get("/anotherPage")).andExpect(/*some session attribute are successfully loaded*/)

Answer 1

You can use andDo method to chain your requests

mockMvc.perform(post("/login").session(session)
       .param("username","Jack").param("password","Jack'sPassword"))
       //Expectations on the first request
       .andExpect(status().ok())
       //Then chain the request
       .andDo(
           result -> mockMvc.perform(get("/anotherPage")).andExpect(/*some session    attribute are successfully loaded*
       )

Answer 2

In version 5.0.0 you can configure MockMvc to preserve the session between performing calls.

    mvc = MockMvcBuilders
    .webAppContextSetup(context)
    .apply(sharedHttpSession())
    .build();

see: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/testing.html#spring-mvc-test-server-setup-steps