I'm trying to use everyauth to handle authentication for a rest api created with restify. But can't find a starting point. I'd expect to be doing something like:
var restify = require('restify'); var everyauth = require('everyauth'); var server = restify.createServer(); server.use(everyauth.middleware()); but restify does not accept the everyauth middleware.
How do I go about setting up restify and everyauth?
The issue you are having is restify does not and current will not have a middleware layer.
The below is from the author of restify
I've thought about this quite a bit, and the thing that worries me here is signing up for compatibility with connect evermore. I don't have control or input over what they decide to do. This seems more in the vein of "if it works, great".
I'm going to close this out with a "won't fix" for now :\
What you can do is use connect and add the restify server on top of that, then you can use connect to manage your middleware like everyauth.
Here is a great sample of this, I have it working great on my system as-is.
// Restify server config here var server = restify.createServer({ name: 'restify-test', version: '1.0.0', }); // ... // Connect config here var connectApp = connect() .use(connect.logger()) .use(connect.bodyParser()) .use(connect.query()) .use(connect.cookieParser()) // And this is where the magic happens .use("/api", function (req, res) { server.server.emit('request', req, res); }); connectApp.listen(8080); https://gist.github.com/2140974
Then you can add everyauth to connect as per the documents.
Hope that helps.