Why is `req.user` undefined for socket requests in Sails.js, Angular.js and Passport.js?

Question

I am trying to get the questions for the current user with a request like this:

http://localhost:1337/question/forme         


        

Answer 1

You can inject authentication methods into socket requests. For this just make a little hijack into config/bootstrap.js.

var passport = require('passport'),
http = require('http'),
initialize = passport.initialize(),
session = passport.session(),
methods = ['login', 'logIn', 'logout', 'logOut', 'isAuthenticated', 'isUnauthenticated'];

module.exports.bootstrap = function(cb) {
    sails.removeAllListeners('router:request');
    sails.on('router:request', function(req, res) {
        initialize(req, res, function() {
            session(req, res, function(error) {
                if (error) {
                    return sails.config[500](500, req, res);
                }
                for (var i = 0; i < methods.length; i++) {
                    req[methods[i]] = http.IncomingMessage.prototype[methods[i]].bind(req);
                }
                sails.router.route(req, res);
            });
        });
    });

    cb();
};

After this hijack you can use isAuthenticated() and other methods from Passport in sockets.

And then inject user variable through policies like Scott says.