I'm using the Angular-Fullstack yeoman generator as the basis for my project:
https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack
I cannot figure out how to redirect users to the link they originally requested after logging in.
Example of what I want to happen:
- Unauthenticated user requests http://myapp/videos/video1
- User is directed to log in
- User successfully authenticates
- User is automatically redirected to http://myapp/videos/video1
I am using both the boilerplate local login and boilerplate OAuth.
Thanks for any help!
I figured it out, here are the steps I took to solve this problem. For some reason, Stack Overflow isn't formatting my last 2 code blocks below. I made a gist with the code below (note 3 separate files need to be modified)
https://gist.github.com/dcoffey3296/d27c141ef79bec3ff6a6
store the url to return to in a cookie within the .run()
method of client/app/app.js
.run(function ($rootScope, $location, Auth, $cookieStore) {
// Redirect to login if route requires auth and you're not logged in
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function (event, next) {
Auth.isLoggedInAsync(function(loggedIn) {
if (next.authenticate && !loggedIn) {
// store the requested url if not logged in
if ($location.url() != '/login')
{
$cookieStore.put('returnUrl', $location.url());
}
$location.path('/login');
}
});
});
});
for Oauth, check for this cookie and redirect if it exists in server/auth/auth.service.js
function setTokenCookie(req, res) {
if (!req.user) {
return res.json(404, { message: 'Something went wrong, please try again.'});
}
var token = signToken(req.user._id, req.user.role);
res.cookie('token', JSON.stringify(token));
// return the user to the request page (oAuth) or homepage
if (typeof req.cookies.returnUrl != 'undefined')
{
res.redirect(req.cookies.returnUrl.replace(/"/g, "") || '/');
}
else
{
res.redirect('/');
}
}
for local login, check for cookie in the .then()
part of $scope.login()
, file: client/app/account/login/login.controller.js
.then( function() {
// Logged in, redirect to home
if (typeof $cookieStore.get('returnUrl') != 'undefined' && $cookieStore.get('returnUrl') != '')
{
$location.path($cookieStore.get('returnUrl'));
$cookieStore.remove('returnUrl');
}
else
{
$location.path('/');
}
})
What I did in a similar case, is that when I redirected user to login page, I attached to the url (as a query parameter) the initial path that user was trying to access eg. path_to_login?requested_url=/videos/video1
. So when the login was completed successfully I just read requested_url
query parameter and if that existed, user was redirected to the specified path.