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Add little comment indicating meaning of $firewall variable #6740

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If context is defined, it is used instead of the firewall
ruslan-fidesio Dec 8, 2015
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions cookbook/testing/simulating_authentication.rst
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Expand Up @@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ It could become an issue especially when ``form_login`` is used, since
it requires additional requests to fill in and submit the form.

One of the solutions is to configure your firewall to use ``http_basic`` in
the test environment as explained in
:doc:`/cookbook/testing/http_authentication`.
the test environment as explained in :doc:`/cookbook/testing/http_authentication`.
Another way would be to create a token yourself and store it in a session.
While doing this, you have to make sure that an appropriate cookie is sent
with a request. The following example demonstrates this technique::
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -45,7 +44,9 @@ with a request. The following example demonstrates this technique::
{
$session = $this->client->getContainer()->get('session');

// the firewall context (defaults to the firewall name)
$firewall = 'secured_area';

$token = new UsernamePasswordToken('admin', null, $firewall, array('ROLE_ADMIN'));
$session->set('_security_'.$firewall, serialize($token));
$session->save();
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