Documentation for “ensureAuthentication” “isAuthenticated” passport's functions?

Question

I\'ve been looking for a while, and can\'t see to find a definitive documentation source. When I search for these, the first Google results are to StackOverflow.

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Answer 1

While not explicitly documented anywhere easily found, you can see where the the isAuthenticated and isUnauthenticated flags are set in the Passport code at https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport/blob/a892b9dc54dce34b7170ad5d73d8ccfba87f4fcf/lib/passport/http/request.js#L74.

ensureAuthenticated is not official, but can be implemented via the following:

function ensureAuthenticated(req, res, next) {
  if (req.isAuthenticated())
    return next();
  else
    // Return error content: res.jsonp(...) or redirect: res.redirect('/login')
}

app.get('/account', ensureAuthenticated, function(req, res) {
  // Do something with user via req.user
});

Answer 2

the reason it return false is mostly because its declared below the route definition. i am doing it in other file so i use it like this

//auth check
function auth(req,res,next){
    if(req.isAuthenticated()){
        next();
    } 
    else{
        res.redirect("/fail");}
}

//routes
require("./routes/myroute")(app,auth);