ember-simple-auth: Persisting session in localstorage using custom authenticator

Question

Setup:

• Ember : 2.0.2
• Ember Data : 2.0.1
• jQuery : 1.11.3
• Ember Simple Auth : 1.0.0 (jjAbrams Branch)
• Ember CLI : 1.13.8

I'm using pretender to mock a server.

Usecase:

Using a custom authenticator to interface with the server.

Have 2 routes: login, protected (and by default index,application)

When I login with the right credentials, the authenticate method of the authenticator gets called and successfully logs the response object which is passed to resolve().

Observations:

1. After logging in and being directed to the protected page, Refreshing the protected route (Which has AuthenticatedRouteMixin) leads back to login page.

2. Localstorage has no values bound to it even after successful login. Before login: ember_simple_auth:session -> {"authenticated":{}}

3. restore() method of authenticator never called.

4. Going to another route from the protected route after auth and coming back goest to login page again.

//authenticators/custom.js
import Ember from 'ember';
import Base from 'ember-simple-auth/authenticators/base';


export default Base.extend({
  restore: function (data) {
    return new Ember.RSVP.Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
      console.log("RESOLVE",data);
      if (!Ember.isEmpty(data.token)) {
        //TODO Remove log

        resolve(data);
      } else {
        console.log("REJECTING",data);
        reject();
      }
    });
  },
  authenticate(credentials) {
    
    return new Ember.RSVP.Promise((resolve, reject) =>
      Ember.$.ajax({
        url: '/token',
        type: 'POST',
        data: JSON.stringify({
          email: credentials.identification,
          password: credentials.password
        }),
        contentType: 'application/json;charset=utf-8',
        dataType: 'json'
      }).then(function (response) {
        Ember.run(function () {
          //This logs the expected information
          console.log("Response", response, response.token, response.user);
          resolve(response);
        });
      }, function (xhr, status, error) {
        console.log("error", error, xhr.responseText);
        var response = xhr.responseText;
        Ember.run(function () {
          reject(response);
        });
      }));
  },

  invalidate(token) {
    return API.logout(token);
  }
});

//environment.js
ENV['ember-simple-auth'] = {
  store: 'session-store:local-storage',
  routeAfterAuthentication: '/protected'
};

TLDR; How do I make the session persist?

Answer 1

I got it all working together finally. Ember 2.0 and ESA 1.0

Here are the steps I took:

1. Create a new ember cli project
2. Update Ember and ember data values to ^2.0.0 in bower.json Source
3. Add ESA jjAbrams dep to package.json Source
4. run npm install && bower install

Gotchas: (This was the original problem which caused the problems described in the question)

1. If you're upgrading from older versions of ESA, all references to 'simple-auth/..' should be updated to refer 'ember-simple-auth/..' instead.. .. This include imports for authenticators, authorizers, stores, mixins and the Config key in the config/environment.js file.

All this shouldn't be an issue once ESA 1.0 and Ember Cli for Ember 2.0 comes out :)