Dynamically Set Access Token on Find, Get, Create, Remove Requests | Socketio | Rest | Feathers Client

[palmtown]

Hello community,

I was hoping to lobby your assistance. I would like to dynamically set the access token while using the feathers socketio or rest client for get, find, remove, create and update requests. After initial login, I would like the ability to change the auth token dynamically. An example would be below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

app.service("messages").find({
                    query: query,
                     accessToken: accessToken
                    strategy: "jwt"                    
                }).then((results) => {
                   // do something with response
                }).catch(e => {
                   // do something with error
                });

[daffl]

Yes, you can do this dynamically by setting params.authentication before the authenticate('jwt') hook. In your case you would pull the access token from the query in a hook:

const setAuthentication = context => {
  const { accessToken, ...query } = context.params.query;

  context.params.authentication = {
    strategy: 'jwt',
    accessToken
  }
  // For subsequent requests, use the query without `accessToken`
  context.params = {
    ...context.params,
    query
  }
}

Then on the client you can do:

const results = await app.service("messages").find({
  query: {
    ...query,
    accessToken
  }
});

Keep in mind that Socket.io connections will still maintain a connection for the user that originally authenticated (if any).

[palmtown]

Hello @daffl

Thanks for your proposed solution. Noted in regards to socket.io. This should fulfill my requirements.

[palmtown]

Just an F.Y.I., this worked perfectly, thank you!