Dropwizard/Jersey: Authentication and JSON parameter
I faced the same problem. In fact this was due to a missing provider in my test configuration.
In your resource unit test in the setUpResources() method, use the method addProvider() to set your authentication provider.
For example:
addProvider(new BasicAuthProvider(<Authenticator>, <CacheBuilderSpec>));
Section 3.3.2.1 notwithstanding, I haven't seen errors like you describe with methods such as the following:
public Response post( @Auth User user, @Valid Food food, @Context UriInfo uriInfo);public Response post( @Auth User user, @Valid Food food, @QueryParam String s);public Response post( @Auth User user, @Valid Food food, BooleanParam b);So a workaround might be to add an unused @QueryParam or @Context parameter.
Try to swap your methods parameters, from
public void add(@Auth User user, @Valid Food food)to
public void add(@Valid Food food, @Auth User user)