Passport Unique Token Strategy

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Unique token authentication strategy for Passport - modified from passport-local.

Installation

$ npm install passport-unique-token

Usage

The unique token authentication strategy authenticates users with a unique token. The strategy requires a verify callback, which accepts these credentials and calls done providing a user.

var UniqueTokenStrategy = require('passport-unique-token').Strategy;

passport.use(new UniqueTokenStrategy(
	function (token, done) {
		User.findOne({ uniqueToken: token, expireToken: { $gt: Date.now() } }, function (err, user) {
			if (err) {
				return done(err);
			}

			if (!user) {
				return done(null, false);
			}

			return done(null, user);
		});
	}
));

By default, passport-unique-token checks for token credentials in either the params url or request body in these locations:

Url params

token

Body fields

token

Query fields

token

Header fields

token

Configure

These credential locations can be configured when defining the strategy as follows:

var UniqueTokenStrategy   = require('passport-unique-token').Strategy;
var strategyOptions = {
    tokenQuery:    'custom-token',
    tokenParams:     'custom-token',
    tokenField:     'custom-token',
    tokenHeader:     'custom-token',
    failedOnMissing: false
};

passport.use(new UniqueTokenStrategy(strategyOptions,
	function (token, done) {
		User.findOne({ uniqueToken: token, expireToken: { $gt: Date.now() } }, function (err, user) {
			if (err) {
				return done(err);
			}

			if (!user) {
				return done(null, false);
			}

			return done(null, user);
		});
	}

failedOnMissing option allows you to queue multiple strategy, customizing the behavior. By default it is set to true, if set to false it lets move on to the next strategy on failure.

Authenticate

Use passport.authenticate(), specifying the token strategy to authenticate requests.

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.put('/animals/dogs', passport.authenticate('token'), function (req, res) {
	// User authenticated and can be found in req.user
});

If authentication fails in the above example then a 401 response will be given. However there may be times you wish a bit more control and delegate the failure to your application:

app.put('/animals/dogs', authenticate, function (req, res) {
	   // User authenticated and can be found in req.user
});

function authenticate(req, res, next) {
    passport.authenticate('token', function (err, user, info) {
        if (err) {
            return next(err);
        }

        if (!user) {
            res.status(401).json({message: "Incorrect token credentials"});
        }

        req.user = user;
        next();
    });
}

Credits

Luca Pau

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Luca Pau

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