Liana.ensureAuthenticated doesn't work for custom route

[Alexander Price]

I am having a problem using Liana.ensureAuthenticated for a custom route. I followed the directions of putting the route prior to using Liana.init, which makes sense so we can use next to allow liana to handle the request, but then it fails since req.user is not defined yet. My code looks like this:

  app.put('/forest/opportunities/:opportunityId', Liana.ensureAuthenticated, saveImageToS3);

  app.use(Liana.init({
    modelsDir: require('path').join(__dirname, '/models'), // Your models directory.
    envSecret: process.env.FOREST_ENV_SECRET,
    authSecret: process.env.FOREST_AUTH_SECRET,
    mongoose: require('mongoose')
  }));

It never gets to saveImageToS3 since it fails at auth.js

[Louis-Rémi Babé]

Hi @alexprice91 You might want to take a look at our app.js where we implemented different strategies to unlock our custom routes: https://github.com/chez-nestor/backoffice/blob/master/src/app.js

[Arnaud Besnier]

Hey @alexprice1, sorry for the late response.
Can you detail a bit your usecase? Why do you need to define this custom route?

Thanks!

[Arnaud Besnier]

Hey @alexprice1, this is now fixed in the latest express liana versions:

• Express - 2.0.6
• Express-Sequelize - 2.0.4
• Express-Mongoose - 2.0.6

You can override the Admin API like you did:

app.put('/forest/opportunities/:opportunityId', Liana.ensureAuthenticated, saveImageToS3);

Let me know if it is ok for you.

🎄🎄🎄