Rest assured with digest auth - rest

Question

I have a working spring-mvc application with rest services and some rest-assured tests which are fine :
#Test
public void createFoobarFromScratchReturns201(){
expect().statusCode(201).given()
.queryParam("foo", generateFoo())
.queryParam("bar", generateBar())
.when().post("/foo/bar/");
}
=> OK
Then I implemented a digest authentication. Everything is working well, now I have to log in to use my services :
curl http://localhost:8089/foo/bar
=> HTTP ERROR 401, Full authentication is required to access this resource
curl http://localhost:8089/foo/bar --digest -u user_test:password
=> HTTP 201, CREATED
But when I try to upgrade my tests with the most obvious function, I still have a 401 error :
#Test
public void createFoobarFromScratchReturns201(){
expect().statusCode(201).given()
.auth().digest("user_test", "password") // Digest added here
.queryParam("foo", generateFoo())
.queryParam("bar", generateBar())
.when().post("/foo/bar/");
}
=> Expected status code <201> doesn't match actual status code <401>
I found some clues with the preemptive() function, but it seems to be only implemented for basic :
// Returns an AuthenticatedScheme and stores it into the general configuration
RestAssured.authentication = preemptive().basic("user_test", "password");
// Try a similar thing, but it didn't work :
RestAssured.authentication = RestAssured.digest("user_test", "password");
Currently, I am trying to achieve two things :
I need to upgrade a couple of my tests to support digest
I need to amend the #Before of the rest of my tests suites (whose are not related to auth issues), to be already logged in.
Any ideas or documentation ?

Answer 1

Try enabling support for cookies in the HTTP client embedded inside Rest Assured with:
RestAssuredConfig config = new RestAssuredConfig().httpClient(new HttpClientConfig().setParam(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.BEST_MATCH));
expect().statusCode(201).given()
.auth().digest("user_test", "password") // Digest added here
.config(config)
.queryParam("foo", generateFoo())
.queryParam("bar", generateBar())
.when().post("/foo/bar/");
The HTTP client (and therefore Rest Assured) supports digest authentication and the configuration of RestAssured using the digest method works well.