@al/session

A client for maintaining Alert Logic session data.

This library uses local-storage-fallback to provide transparent persistent storage to consumers.

Disclaimer

Until the release of version 1.0.0 all current minor version increments may be backwards incompatible. Please bear this in mind when developing against this library. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us as [email protected]

Installation

  npm install @al/session --save

Usage

For commonjs environments, e.g nodejs:

  var ALSession = require('@al/session').ALSession;

For ES2015 environments, e.g. TypeScript based frameworks such as Angular:

  import { ALSession } from '@al/session';

Methods

activateSession

Sets isSessionActive to true if authentication.token_expiration is in the future.

  ALSession.activateSession();

deactivateSession

Sets isSessionActive to false and empties the cache of user and customer data.

  ALSession.deactivateSession();

isSessionActive

Boolean check to see if the session data itself is verified as potentially valid.

  ALSession.isSessionActive();

setUserAuthentication

Sets the authenticated user details

  ALSession.setUserAuthentication(proposal);

Takes a proposal parameter in the format of an AIMS authentication resource

getUserAuthentication

Returns the currently logged in user's AIMS authentication resource.

  ALSession.getUserAuthentication();

setActingAccount

Sets the acting account for the current authenticated user

  ALSession.setActingAccount(account)

Takes an account parameter in the format of an AIMS account resource

getActingAccount

Returns an the current acting account (modelled on an AIMS account).

  ALSession.getActingAccount();

getToken

Returns the current AIMS authentication token string.

  ALSession.getToken();

getTokenExpiry

Returns the current AIMS authentication token expiry.

  ALSession.getToken();

Convenience methods for user

getUserID

getUserName

getUserEmail

getUserAccountID

getUserAccessibleLocations

Convenience methods for acting account

getActingAccountID

getActingAccountName

getActingAccountDefaultLocation

getActingAccountAccessibleLocations

Interactive

Loads the library into memory and stays in an interactive node shell.

  npm run interactive

After running this command you can access the ALSession object and call methods directly on it.

Tests

  npm test

or to watch for code changes and re-run tests:

  npm test-watch

An auto-generated coverage directory will be produced which will contain a browsable HTML report

Contributing

The sources are written in Typescript and follow the tslint airbnb style.

Building

To generate a production build

npm run build

To generate a development build for local testing - non minified, concatenated only

npm run build-dev

Builds will be be generated into a dist folder and will contain commonjs and umd bundles that will be consumed depending on the module system in whichever environment you are using.