Monday, July 9, 2018

Return JWT token when user signs in rails

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Having an issue with getting JWT token using devise gem and devise-jwt gem. This is how my confirmation looks like.

devise.rb

  Devise.setup do |config|      config.jwt do |jwt|       jwt.secret =  SECRETS.devise_jwt_secret_key       jwt.dispatch_requests = [ ['POST', %r{^/authentication_tokens/create$}] ]     end end  

user.rb

class User < ApplicationRecord      devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,            :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable,            :jwt_authenticatable, jwt_revocation_strategy: Devise::JWT::RevocationStrategies::Null    end 

authentication_tokens_controller.rb

class Api::V1::AuthenticationTokensController < Devise::SessionsController   include Devise::Controllers::Helpers   skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token     prepend_before_action :require_no_authentication, only: [:create]    before_action :rewrite_param_names, only: [:create]    def new     render json: { response: "Authentication required" }, status: 401   end    def create     self.resource = warden.authenticate!(auth_options)     sign_in(resource_name, resource)     yield resource if block_given?      render json: {success: true, jwt: current_token, response: "Authentication successful" }   end    private    def rewrite_param_names     request.params[:user] = {email: request.params[:email], password: request.params[:password]}   end    def current_token     request.env['warden-jwt_auth.token']   end  end 

routes.rb

   get 'home#secret'    devise_for :users    resources :tasks    #other routes for the website removed for brevity    namespace :api, defaults: { format: :json } do     namespace :v1 do       resources :users       devise_scope :user do         post '/authentication_tokens/create', to: "authentication_tokens#create"       end     end   end 

For some reason request.env['warden-jwt_auth.token'] returns null all the time, however, the user is authenticated. Is there anything that I need to add to get the JWT token when a user signs in?

Update - routes and namespacing

After days of debugging, I believe I have found the source of my problem. My app has a frontend which uses normal routes. The code above doesn't work however if I do something like the code below. All is good.

  scope :api, defaults: {format: :json} do     devise_for :users, controllers: {sessions: 'v1/authentication_tokens'}   end 

Is there a way of namespacing the devise_for for me API even though it has been used above for the website?

2 Answers

Answers 1

I've briefly looked on your issue and, it's probably wrong, but something for you to give a try:

looking on the following lines

def create   self.resource = warden.authenticate!(auth_options) end  def current_token   request.env['warden-jwt_auth.token'] end 

If you say that user is being authenticated even with nil returned from current_token method, so that means that jwt is passing correctly, but your way of fetching it is wrong.

Try to debug self.resource = warden.authenticate!(auth_options) line and see what contains inside auth_options, probably you can take JWT from there, or you just trying to get warden-jwt_auth.token in a wrong way. Try to debug this line as well and see if you should probably take "warden-jwt_auth.token" from request.headers["warden-jwt_auth.token"], or something like this. Just print out the whole response of your request and search by needed header.

I hope this helps!

Answers 2

You just need to make your route RESTful.

routes.rb

post '/authentication_tokens', to: "authentication_tokens#create" 

devise.rb

config.jwt do |jwt|   jwt.secret =  SECRETS.devise_jwt_secret_key   jwt.dispatch_requests = [ ['POST', %r{^/authentication_tokens$}] ] end 
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