diff --git a/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.test.ts b/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.test.ts
index 9f874923fd..d1e9179dc1 100644
--- a/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.test.ts
@@ -559,10 +559,13 @@ describe('createRouter', () => {
         content,
         url,
       });
+      mockedAuthorize.mockImplementationOnce(async () => [
+        { result: AuthorizeResult.ALLOW },
+      ]);
 
-      const response = await request(app).get(
-        '/readme/myProject/myRepo?path=README_NOT_DEFAULT.md',
-      );
+      const response = await request(app)
+        .get('/readme/myProject/myRepo?path=README_NOT_DEFAULT.md')
+        .query({ entityRef: 'component:default/mycomponent' });
       expect(azureDevOpsApi.getReadme).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
         'host.com',
         'myOrg',
@@ -587,10 +590,13 @@ describe('createRouter', () => {
         content,
         url,
       });
+      mockedAuthorize.mockImplementationOnce(async () => [
+        { result: AuthorizeResult.ALLOW },
+      ]);
 
-      const response = await request(app).get(
-        '/readme/myProject/myRepo?path=/my-path/README.md',
-      );
+      const response = await request(app)
+        .get('/readme/myProject/myRepo?path=/my-path/README.md')
+        .query({ entityRef: 'component:default/mycomponent' });
       expect(azureDevOpsApi.getReadme).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
         'host.com',
         'myOrg',
diff --git a/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.ts b/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.ts
index b9667a9ade..239de78fbe 100644
--- a/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.ts
+++ b/plugins/azure-devops-backend/src/service/router.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import { Logger } from 'winston';
 import { PullRequestsDashboardProvider } from '../api/PullRequestsDashboardProvider';
 import Router from 'express-promise-router';
 import { errorHandler, UrlReader } from '@backstage/backend-common';
-import { InputError } from '@backstage/errors';
 import express from 'express';
 import { InputError, NotAllowedError } from '@backstage/errors';
 import { getBearerTokenFromAuthorizationHeader } from '@backstage/plugin-auth-node';