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Nikola Schou
Nikola Schou

Reputation: 2476

Why is the FeathersJS auth hooks never invoked?

I have the following piece of code which sets up 4 hooks for my FeathersJS service: 

 service.before({
      all: [
    auth.verifyToken(),
    auth.populateUser(),
    auth.restrictToAuthenticated(),
    myCustomHook()
]});

The last hook is invoked so I know my code works right overall.

However, the three auth-hooks does not seem to be called, which is what puzzles me. Any suggestions to why this could happen or how I can debug it will be appreciated.

* More details: *

I'm inside a unittest and all I do is this: 

app.service('/blockAddresses').find({})

I would expect a failure coming from the auth.restrictToAuthenticated hook. I see no such failure and therefore I conclude that the auth-hooks are never invoked. Of course, this conclusion might be wrong.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 151

Answers (1)

Daff
Daff

Reputation: 44215

The verifyToken hook will be skipped if the request did not come through the REST or Socket.io API. It checks for params.provider being set. In a unit test I usually just pass a test { user } in params but if you want to verify a token you can set the provider and token like this:

app.service('/blockAddresses').find({
  provider: 'test',
  token: 'myinvalidtoken'
})

Upvotes: 3

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