everyauth is not defined

Question

I am new to nodejs, everyauth,etc. I am having some trouble with everyauth. In my view, if I access everyauth object, I get an error 'everyauth is not defined'. However the oauth flow itself works fine with everyauth. Here are the details,

entry point - app.js

var express = require('express');
var everyauth = require('everyauth');
everyauth.debug = true;
var app = express();


everyauth['37signals']
  .appId('e6e76726501abf1b5627fe854b384ef8d62d7a55')
  .appSecret('7c6891f46cb19aaf1831785968630ed4a1b3c342')
  .findOrCreateUser( function (sess, accessToken, accessSecret, _37signalsUser) {
  //code to handle find or create
}
  .redirectPath('/');

app.configure(function(){
  app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
  app.set('view engine', 'jade');
  app.use(express.cookieParser());
  app.use(express.session({ secret: 'foobar' }));
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(everyauth.middleware());
  app.use(express.methodOverride());
  app.use(app.router);
  app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
  everyauth.helpExpress(app);
});




app.configure('development', function(){
  console.log('inside development configure');
  app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })); 
});

app.configure('production', function(){
  app.use(express.errorHandler()); 
});

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  console.log('everyauthloggedin='+ everyauth.loggedIn); // everyauth.loggedIn is undefined
    res.render('home');
});

home.jade

if(!everyauth.loggedIn) // get everyauth is not defined
    h2 Not authenicated 
else
    h2 Authenicated
    p= JSON.stringify(everyauth['37signals'].user)  

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Edit - Adding the example which I followed,

From everyauth site

In the main app file - https://github.com/bnoguchi/everyauth/blob/master/example/server.js, render the view using..

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.render('home');
});

In the view file,access the everyauth object - https://github.com/bnoguchi/everyauth/blob/master/example/views/home.jade

- if (!everyauth.loggedIn)
  h2 Not Authenticated

The everyauth object is not passed to the view here, unless I am missing something.

Sorenson

Answer 1

This is an old question, but I was having the same problem and was very frustrated to see that another dev had the exactly same problem and the only answers where completely off

It took me a couple of hours to do a line-by-line comparisson of my code and the examples, but finally got it right:

you have:

app.configure(function(){
    //...
    app.use(everyauth.middleware());
    //...
}

but shoud be

app.configure(function(){
    //...
    app.use(everyauth.middleware(app));
    //...
}

and that's it. now everyauth is defined on the jade views and all works as expected.

Conscript

This solution isn't working for me in the latest express and everyauth versions. Posted the solution below that worked for me. Hope it helps. – Pool

Answer 2

The following solution from this LINK worked very well for me -

Add the following functions to your app.js

function preEveryauthMiddlewareHack() {
 return function (req, res, next) {
  var sess = req.session
    , auth = sess.auth
    , ea = { loggedIn: !!(auth && auth.loggedIn) };

  // Copy the session.auth properties over
  for (var k in auth) {
    ea[k] = auth[k];
  }

  if (everyauth.enabled.password) {
    // Add in access to loginFormFieldName() + passwordFormFieldName()
    ea.password || (ea.password = {});
    ea.password.loginFormFieldName = everyauth.password.loginFormFieldName();
    ea.password.passwordFormFieldName = everyauth.password.passwordFormFieldName();
  }

  res.locals.everyauth = ea;

  next();
}

};

function postEveryauthMiddlewareHack() {
  var userAlias = everyauth.expressHelperUserAlias || 'user';
  return function( req, res, next) {
    res.locals.everyauth.user = req.user;
    res.locals[userAlias] = req.user;
    next();
  };
};

And update this line

app.use(everyauth.middleware());

like this -

   app.use(preEveryauthMiddlewareHack());
   app.use(everyauth.middleware());
   app.use(postEveryauthMiddlewareHack());

Hope it helps.

Pool

Answer 3

That's because you trying to access everyauth from jade template. Although you could pass the everyauth variable to the template, this is not good practice.

Instead the if/else block should remain in your controller. Then you can render a different template if the user is login or not.

Something like this

if(everyauth.loggedIn){

  template = 'authenicated';
}
 else{

  template = 'unauthenicated';
}

res.render(template, {

    title: { title: 'Title' }

});

Winne

I added the example I followed from everyauth github page. The everyauth object is not passed to the template. I was trying to understand if I a missing something here. – Sorenson