Ember Simple Auth different redirects after authentication

Question

I'm using Ember simple auth in my app and it's working great, but I've run into a scenario that I'm having trouble getting around.

The library lets you specify the route to redirect to after a successful authentication by overriding routeAfterAuthentication: 'index'. This is working fine, however, I'm finding myself in a situation where I want to have two different types of redirects. When a user first logs in, I want them to go to /dashboard, but when they first sign up and authenticate, I want them to go /settings.

I was hoping to be able to do something like this after successfully creating an account, but it's still trying to use the routeAfterAuthentication option for the transition:

var _this = this;

this.set('identification', _this.get('email'));
this.set('password', password);

this.send('authenticate', function() {
  _this.transitionToRoute('settings');
}, function() {});

Is there a way to specify which route to transition to after authenticating on one-off basis? Maybe there's a better way to log someone after they create an account without needing to go through the authenticate() method?

Answer 1

You can simply override the sessionAuthenticated method in the application route and implement your own logic. Beware though that the default implementation will not always transition to routeAfterAuthentication-- if there's a previously intercepted transition stored in the session, sessionAuthenticated will retry that instead.