Three specs acquire an admin token with `const body = await res.json();
return body.token`. The admin login has not returned a token in its body
for some time — establishAdminSession() sets the JWT as the httpOnly
`admin_token` cookie and responds with `res.json({ user })` — so the
token was undefined and every one of them failed at the first assertion,
before exercising anything they were written to cover.
Server-side the cookie and an Authorization: Bearer header are
interchangeable (see middleware/gallery.js, which reads the cookie first
and accepts an admin-typed Bearer second), so the fix is to read the
value back out of the context cookie jar and keep threading it as a
Bearer. Every downstream call in these specs stays exactly as it was.
Measured against a real stack, running only these three files:
before 0 passed, 6 failed — all six at the token assertion
after 3 passed, 3 failed
The three that still fail no longer fail on auth: they get deep into the
flow and then miss UI that has since changed (a settings label, a
locator that no longer resolves). That is a separate and much larger
staleness problem across this directory — a full run is 12 passed
against roughly two dozen failures of that kind — and it is not
addressed here.
Worth knowing: no CI workflow runs tests/e2e at all, which is why this
rotted silently while `npm run test:e2e` stayed documented in CLAUDE.md.
Wiring it up is the obvious follow-up, but it has to wait until the
suite is actually green, or it would just pin main red.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ra4hcsYiKuQLbbRsg6EjAc
Co-authored-by: Paul Nothaft <paul@MacStudio-von-Paul.local>
Paul Nothaft
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