hapijs-lab: Test a route with a valid session

In my hapijs app I have few routes which require a session, uses hapi-auth-cookie plugin for auth strategy. I want to add few tests (via Lab ) for these routes.

I couldn't find any documentation on how I can setup a test (maybe via before ?) for this scenario. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

If you only need an authenticated user, just assign the user to the credentials property in tests:

var user = { ... };

server.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/', credentials: user }, function (res) {
    console.log(res.result);
});

Here is an example that demonstrates it:

var Bcrypt = require('bcrypt');
var Hapi = require('hapi');
var HapiAuthCookie = require('hapi-auth-cookie');

var server = new Hapi.Server();
server.connection({ port: 3000 });

var users = {
    john: {
        username: 'john',
        password: '$2a$10$iqJSHD.BGr0E2IxQwYgJmeP3NvhPrXAeLSaGCj6IR/XU5QtjVu5Tm',
        name: 'John Doe',
        id: '2133d32a'
    }
};

var validate = function (request, username, password, callback) {
    var user = users[username];
    if (!user) {
        return callback(null, false);
    }

    Bcrypt.compare(password, user.password, function (err, isValid) {
        callback(err, isValid, { id: user.id, name: user.name });
    });
};

server.register(HapiAuthCookie, function (err) {
    server.auth.strategy('session', 'cookie', {
        password: 'secret',
        validateFunc: validate
    });

    server.route({
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/',
        config: {
            auth: 'session',
            handler: function (request, reply) {
                reply('hello, ' + request.auth.credentials.name);
            }
        }
    });

    server.inject({ method: 'GET', url: '/', credentials: users.john }, function (res) {
        console.log(res.result);
    });
});

Large part of the example was taken from the Authentication Tutorial.