[msal-react] How should I automate Azure AD login in my automated integration test?

Core Library

MSAL.js v2 (@azure/msal-browser)

Core Library Version

2.21.0

Wrapper Library

MSAL React (@azure/msal-react)

Wrapper Library Version

1.2.0

Description

I am working on an automated test (e.g. using Cypress or Selenium) that needs to initially get pass the Azure AD login screen.

In this test, I am able to make a POST request to https://login.microsoftonline.com/my-tenantId/oauth2/v2.0/token with the grant type client_credentials and a client_id and client_secret. I get a token back.

However, I don’t understand how I should save this token into the sessionStorage so that when my Cypress test visits localhost:8080, I avoid the redirect to login again. I would prefer my test to not use an email/password to login (and instead use the client credentials).

When I look at how msal-react updates the sessionStorage in my real-world browser runtime, I see quite a few MSAL tokens being saved into session storage. I don’t understand if I need to get all of these using POST requests.

Am I going about automating this the wrong way? Would love some guidance or direction on which documentation I should read for my use case. Thanks!

MSAL Configuration

No response

Relevant Code Snippets

No response

Identity Provider

Azure AD / MSA

Source

External (Customer)

[whatjakecodes]

Yes, please mark it resolved. Appreciate your support, @hectormmg !

[hectormmg]

@whatjakecodes I’ve been looking further into your approach, and I think you should check out the testing doc we have on using loadExternalTokens API. What you originally wanted to do is achievable through this advanced API.