Test failures due to unprocessable token

A Karate API test failure was reported (from this build) to the Prokopovych team.

I investigated the reported failure and wanted to share my investigation because I think it is a common issue that affects tests from multiple teams.

The reported error is:
io.vertx.core.json.DecodeException: Failed to decode:Unrecognized token 'Access': was expecting (JSON String, Number, Array, Object or token 'null', 'true' or 'false')
at [Source: (String)"Access for user 'test-user' (00000000-1111-5555-9999-999999999992) requires permission: inventory-storage.related-instances.collection.get"; line: 1, column: 7]

This error is produced by mod-auth-token.

This suggests there is an issue with either the token being used to make requests during some of the tests or with how mod-authtoken is interpreting them. However, that area of mod-authtoken has not changed for over a month.

I checked a few of the other failures and at least some of the errors are very similar:

• mod-circulation
• mod-orders

This leads me to think this is not an issue with the individual modules and rather with the token being used for some of the tests.