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Reputation: 101

Where are sails.helpers functions coming from in the default sails web app

I am curious as to where sails.helpers.x.y() functions are coming from in the example web app that comes with sails.

After running sails new test-project, selecting the web app and looking around a bit I noticed that many files are calling functions like sails.helpers.passwords.hashPassword().

However when looking in the helpers folder, the only file there is send-template-email with nothing resembling a function to hash passwords.

I've read the docs on sails helper function here and it doesn't mention any default helper functions like hashPassword. I have also gone through the debugger in vscode and found that sails.helpers.passwords.hashpassword() is indeed defined, but I can't find it anywhere when I search through the source.

Does anybody know where these helpers are coming from?

For reference the part of the code that I debugged to get to the hashPassword() call was in signup.js here: 

var newUserRecord = await User.create(_.extend({
      emailAddress: newEmailAddress,
      password: await sails.helpers.passwords.hashPassword(inputs.password),
      fullName: inputs.fullName,
      tosAcceptedByIp: this.req.ip
    }, sails.config.custom.verifyEmailAddresses? {
      emailProofToken: await sails.helpers.strings.random('url-friendly'),
      emailProofTokenExpiresAt: Date.now() + sails.config.custom.emailProofTokenTTL,
      emailStatus: 'unconfirmed'
    }:{}))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1922

Answers (1)

Robertino Vasilescu
Robertino Vasilescu

Reputation: 1078

They come from the sails-hook-organics package, check here the password methods, https://github.com/sailshq/sails-hook-organics/blob/a27db6c93e7333f5036a54ceb13a2e3b3fa0ae26/OTHER-USEFUL-METHODS.md

Upvotes: 4

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