Passport.js user mocking version 2

test-passport.coffee

users = require './../data/users'

data = users: []
data.users.anon = authenticated: false
data.users.admin = users[0]  
data.users.jk = users[1]  
data.users.artle = users[5] 
data.users.beountain = users[4] 

setSession = (userKey) ->
  if data.users[userKey]?
    global.session = data.users[userKey]
  else
    global.session = data.users.admin


module.exports =

  setSession: setSession

  initialize: (app) ->

    # default to admin
    global.session = data.users.admin

    (req, res, next) ->
      passport = @
      passport._key = 'passport'
      passport._userProperty = 'user'
      passport.serializeUser = (user, done) -> done null, user
      passport.deserializeUser = (user, done) -> done null, global.session

      req._passport = instance: passport

      req._passport.session = user: session

      # allow us to change the session from the client in integration tests
      app.get '/set-session/:id', (req, r) =>
        setSession req.params.id
        r.send { set: data.users[req.params.id] }

      next()

Oh man - you're a hero! Thanks so much! Saved me hours of passport spelunking.

Awesome dude! This code helped a lot. It's worth to mention an issue that took me one hour to figure out. I was having this exception: TypeError: object is not a function -> Object.passport.deserializeUser. Digging a little at passport code it turns out that the done function is the third param when deserializeUser is called, and the second is the req. At least for the version 0.2.0 which is the one I'm using right now.