frontend/cypress/support/authenticateUser.ts

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// This authenticates a user and puts the token in local storage which allows us to perform authenticated requests.
// Built after https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-recipes/tree/bd2d6ffb33214884cab343d38e7f9e6ebffb323f/examples/logging-in__jwt
import {UserFactory} from '../factories/user'
export function login(user, cacheAcrossSpecs = false) {
if (!user) {
throw new Error('Needs user')
}
// Caching session when logging in via page visit
cy.session(`user__${user.username}`, () => {
cy.request('POST', `${Cypress.env('API_URL')}/login`, {
username: user.username,
password: '1234',
}).then(({ body }) => {
window.localStorage.setItem('token', body.token)
})
}, {
cacheAcrossSpecs,
})
}
export function createFakeUserAndLogin() {
let user
before(() => {
user = UserFactory.create(1)[0]
})
beforeEach(() => {
login(user, true)
})
return user
}