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Baird_SBaird_S 

Cannot test as user of type guest? Should I care?

I've got a complicated controller/pages package which I've been testing using runas(), in order to make sure that the guest profile has access to all the fields and objects it needs to.  My code:

 

//TRY TESTING THIS FOR THE WATERGRASS WEB PROFILE
Profile p = [SELECT Id FROM Profile WHERE Name='WaterGrass Web Profile']; 
      user u = new User(Alias = 'WGWeb', Email='WGWebUser@testorg.com', 
      EmailEncodingKey='UTF-8', LastName='WGWebUser', LanguageLocaleKey='en_US', 
      LocaleSidKey='en_US', ProfileId = p.Id, 
      TimeZoneSidKey='America/Los_Angeles', UserName='WGWebUser@testorg.com');
      insert u;

      System.runAs(u) {


CODE TO BE TESTED

}

 But in my most recent deployments, I run into this error: Insufficient Access ...: Cannot insert a user of type guest.

 

My questions:

  • Is this a new error type?
  • Is there some easy fix?
  • Does it matter whether I test using runas()?  I'm curious whether you other developers use this.

Thanks for your input,

Baird



Karthikeyan JayabalKarthikeyan Jayabal

Inserting the user record is not required, so just comment out that insert statement & it will work fine.

For more info on this topic, refer to Using the runAs Method

Baird_SBaird_S

Yeah, that's what I did.  Thanks.