I am using express and passport to build a rest api backend and it seems that my localStrategy is not getting called on request.
The entry point of my application looks like the following:
app.js
var fs = require('fs');
var express = require('express');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var passport = require('passport');
var config = require('./config/config');
var morgan = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();
app.use(morgan('dev')); // log every request to the console
app.use(cookieParser()); // read cookies (needed for auth)
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended:true}));
app.use(passport.initialize());
//connect to mongodb
mongoose.connect(config.db, options);
//load models (shorten forEach)
...
require(__dirname + '/models/' + file)(mongoose);
//load passport config
require('./config/passport')(mongoose, passport);
//load routes
require('./config/routes')(app, passport);
//start server
var server = app.listen(3000, ....
routes.js
...
app.post('/auth', function(req, res){
console.log("reached auth endpoint");
console.log(req.body);
passport.authenticate('local', { session: false}, function(err, user, info){
console.log("Test:"+user);
if(err) {
console.log("Error1");
return next(err)}
if(!user){
console.log("Error2");
return res.json(401, {error: 'Auth Error!'});
}
console.log("Error3");
var token = jwt.encode({ username: user.email }, "hanswurst");
res.json({token: token});
}),
function(req, res){
console.log("passport user", req.user);
};
});
passport.js
...
passport.use(new LocalStrategy({
usernameField: 'email',
passwordField: 'password',
passReqToCallback: true
},
function(email, password, done){
console.log("TEST");
User.findOne({'email': email}, function(err, user){
if(err){
console.log("Unknown error");
return done(err);
}
if(!user){
console.log("No User found");
return done(null, false);
}
if(!user.validPassword(password)){
console.log("Password was incorrect");
return done(null, false);
}
console.log("User was found");
return done(null, user);
});
}
));
The only result i get on form request is
reached auth endpoint
{ email: 'test@mail.com', password: 'secret' }
POST /auth - - ms - -
For me the request body looks fine and it should enter my LocalStrategy. I am bit helpless as i am not getting any other console output from this point.