Sails.js : How to return access token after user registration using sails-generate-auth?

Question

I am using sails-generate-auth in my sails.js app. I followed this tutorial to integrate this with my app. When I call localhost:1337/auth/local/register it routes to my callback action in AuthController. My callback action is as follows

callback: function (req, res) {
        function tryAgain(err) {
                //some validation
                }
        }

passport.callback(req, res, function (err, user, challenges, statuses) {
            if (err || !user) {
                return tryAgain(challenges);
            }

            req.login(user, function (err) {
                if (err) {
                    return tryAgain(err);
                }

                //Return the access token created by passport instead of success.
                res.send("Success");
            });
        });

I want to replace res.send("Success"); with the access token created by passport. But User.passport seems to be null at this point. How do I get the user's access token at this point?

Matan Gubkin Matan Gubkin · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-21T13:02:42

The User You Get only contains the data from the 'User Collection' which contains the username email and id. The 'Passport' collection is a seperate collection which contains hashed password, ID, userID(which is equal to the ID In the 'User' Collection) and a token. You need to search in the 'passport' collection for the relavent User. Here is the algoritem:

passport.callback(req, res, function (err, user, challenges, statuses) {
  if (err || !user) {
    console.log(err);
    return tryAgain(challenges);
  }

  req.login(user, function (err) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      return tryAgain(err);
    }

    // Mark the session as authenticated to work with default Sails sessionAuth.js policy
    req.session.authenticated = true

    console.log(user);
    var userID = user.id;
    Passport.find({user: userID}, function(err, items){
        if(err) return err;

        console.log(items[0].accessToken);
        // Make sure you dont give them any sensetive data
        res.json({userData: user, token: items[0].accessToken});
    });
    // Upon successful login, send the user to the homepage were req.user
    //res.redirect('/');
  });
});

Sails.js : How to return access token after user registration using sails-generate-auth?

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