Compare values when object not received (TypeScript, Aurelia)

Question

I'm trying to compare defined role (in my app.ts) and revived role from WebServer. But when I'm not logged I have problem with compare values:

This is what I'm doing:

export class RoutingAuthorizeStep {

 public readonly userIdentity: UserIdentityModel;

 constructor (userIdentity: UserIdentityModel) {
    this.userIdentity = userIdentity;}

  run(navigationInstruction: NavigationInstruction, next: Next) : Promise<any> {

  let requiredRoles = navigationInstruction.getAllInstructions()
                    .map(i => i.config.settings.roles)[0] as string[];
                    //requiredRoles is example 'superUser'

  let isUserInRole = requiredRoles?
    requiredRoles.some(r => r === this.userIdentity.role) : true;
  }
 }

When I checked into debug: console.log(this.userIdentity.role);

I have this message:

aurelia-logging-console.js?dc89:45 ERROR [app-router] TypeError: 
                                                  Cannot read property 'role' of undefined
at RoutingAuthorizeStep.run (routing-authorize-step.ts?008f:30)
at next (aurelia-router.js?e32b:433)

Answer 1

I'm not an Aurelia dev but this seems like a simple JS problem unless i'm wrong. assuming the error is in the "isUserInRole" you could do this.

  let isUserInRole = requiredRoles?
    requiredRoles.some(r => this.userIdentity && r === this.userIdentity.role) : true;
  }

Basically just check if your userIdentity exists before checking its role.

Hope this helps!