ServiceStack authentication in tests

Question

I want to be able to test my Servicestack endpoints using basic or credentials auth but don't want to have to login for each test, save the ss-id and then use that to actually exercise the end point.

Ideally I would be able to create a user using something like (this already works using credentials auth) http://devapi.someapi.com/register?username=blah&password=test&x-http-method-override=POST

then actually hit a secured url with something like:

http://devapi.someapi.com/users/123?username=blah&password=test

Is there anything like this available?

Answer 1

For testing I recommend using Config.AdminAuthSecret to specify a special string to give you admin access without having to login by adding ?authsecret=xxx to the query string.