Data written to DB in test not avaiable to REST call

I have a test that creates a user via a JPA repo and then logs that user in via a TestRestTemplate

The problem is after I create my user using the repo, the web call cannot see the user in the database, even after calling entityManager.flush() and entityManager.clear()

The methods in question:

fun _createUserGetLoginDTO(): LoginDTO{
        val password = passwordEncoder.encode(Instancio.create(String::class.java))
        val user = getTestUser()
        user.setPassword(password)
        latestUser = user
        itrUserRepository.save(user)
        val loginDTO = LoginDTO(user.username!!, password)
        entityManager.flush()
        entityManager.clear()
        return loginDTO
    }
    fun _createUserAndLoginReturningToken(): String {
        val loginDTO = _createUserGetLoginDTO()
        val tr = this.testRestTemplate.exchange(
            "http://localhost:$port/auth/login", HttpMethod.POST, HttpEntity<LoginDTO>(loginDTO),
            LoginResponse::class.java
        ) // Fails b/c user is not found?
        Assertions.assertThat(tr.statusCode.value()).isEqualTo(200)
        Assertions.assertThat(centralTokenStorageService.isValid(tr.body?.token!!)).isTrue()
        entityManager.flush()
        entityManager.clear()
        return tr.body?.token!!
    }

To debug, I added a message in my user details service and I can see that my user lookup is failing, causing a 403 (I see the error message printed to stderr):

@Bean
    fun userDetailsService(): UserDetailsService {
        return UserDetailsService { username ->
            val u = itrUserRepository.findByUn(username)
            if (!u.isPresent) {
                System.err.println("************ User not found ${username}")
                throw (UsernameNotFoundException("User $username not found"))
            }
            u.get()
        }
    }

How can I make the user I'm inserting available to the web layer?

Found it, this combination of annotations worked for me.

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
@AutoConfigureTestDatabase
@AutoConfigureWebTestClient

For some reason, the AutoConfigure* annotations sorted it.

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