Node and Angular. I have a MEAN stack authentication application where I am setting a JWT token on successful login as follows, and storing it in a session in the controller. Assigning the JWT token to config.headers through service interceptor:
var token = jwt.sign({id: user._id}, secret.secretToken, { expiresIn: tokenManager.TOKEN_EXPIRATION_SEC });
return res.json({token:token});
authservice.js Interceptor(omitted requestError,response and responseError):
authServices.factory('TokenInterceptor', ['$q', '$window', '$location','AuthenticationService',function ($q, $window, $location, AuthenticationService) {
return {
request: function (config) {
config.headers = config.headers || {};
if ($window.sessionStorage.token) {
config.headers.Authorization = 'Bearer ' + $window.sessionStorage.token;
}
return config;
}
};
}]);
Now I wanted to get the logged in user details from the token, How can I do that? I tried as follows, not working. When I log the error from Users.js file it's saying "ReferenceError: headers is not defined"
authController.js:
$scope.me = function() {
UserService.me(function(res) {
$scope.myDetails = res;
}, function() {
console.log('Failed to fetch details');
$rootScope.error = 'Failed to fetch details';
})
};
authService.js:
authServices.factory('UserService',['$http', function($http) {
return {
me:function() {
return $http.get(options.api.base_url + '/me');
}
}
}]);
Users.js (Node):
exports.me = function(req,res){
if (req.headers && req.headers.authorization) {
var authorization =req.headers.authorization;
var part = authorization.split(' ');
//logic here to retrieve the user from database
}
return res.send(200);
}
Do i have to pass the token as a parameter too for retrieving the user details? Or save the user details in a separate session variable as well?