feathers-authentication-hooks

A hook that helps limiting and associating user requests

$ npm install feathers-authentication-hooks --save

feathers-authentication-hooks contains a Feathers hook that allows to set query or data properties based on other existing properties (like an authenticated user or organization id).

Note: feathers-authentication-hooks v1.0.0 and later requires Feathers 4 or later.

setField

The setField hook allows to set a field on the hook context based on the value of another field on the hook context.

Options

• from required - The property on the hook context to use. Can be an array (e.g. [ 'params', 'user', 'id' ]) or a dot separated string (e.g. 'params.user.id').
• as required - The property on the hook context to set. Can be an array (e.g. [ 'params', 'query', 'userId' ]) or a dot separated string (e.g. 'params.query.userId').
• allowUndefined (default: false) - If set to false, an error will be thrown if the value of from is undefined in an external request (params.provider is set). On internal calls (or if set to true true for external calls) the hook will do nothing.

Important: This hook should be used after the authenticate hook when accessing user fields (from params.user).

Examples

Limit all external access of the users service to the authenticated user:

Note: For MongoDB, Mongoose and NeDB params.user.id needs to be changed to params.user._id. For any other custom id accordingly.

const { authenticate } = require('@feathersjs/authentication');
const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('users').hooks({
  before: {
    all: [
      authenticate('jwt'),
      setField({
        from: 'params.user.id',
        as: 'params.query.id'
      })
    ]
  }
})

Only allow access to invoices for the users organization:

const { authenticate } = require('@feathersjs/authentication');
const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('invoices').hooks({
  before: {
    all: [
      authenticate('jwt'),
      setField({
        from: 'params.user.organizationId',
        as: 'params.query.organizationId'
      })
    ]
  }
})

Set the current user id as userId when creating a message and only allow users to edit and remove their own messages:

const { authenticate } = require('@feathersjs/authentication');
const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

const setUserId = setField({
  from: 'params.user.id',
  as: 'data.userId'
});
const limitToUser = setField({
  from: 'params.user.id',
  as: 'params.query.userId'
});

app.service('messages').hooks({
  before: {
    all: [
      authenticate('jwt')
    ],
    create: [
      setUserId
    ],
    patch: [
      limitToUser
    ],
    update: [
      limitToUser
    ]
    remove: [
      limitToUser
    ]
  }
})

Migrating to v1.0.0

The previous versions of feathers-authentication-hooks contained several hooks that required more detailed configuration and knowledge about the application and authentication. Due to improvements in the database adapters in Feathers 4 those hooks can now all be replaced with the setField hook and a more explicit configuration.

queryWithCurrentUser

Before:

const hooks = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  find: [
    hooks.queryWithCurrentUser({ idField: 'id', as: 'sentBy' })
  ]
});

Now:

const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  find: [
    setField({
      from: 'params.user.id',
      as: 'params.query.sentBy'
    })
  ]
});

Dot separated paths in queries (previously with the expandPaths option) are possible by passing an array as the field name (using Lodash _.set internally):

const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  find: [
    setField({
      from: 'params.user.id',
      as: [ 'params', 'query', 'nested.document.sentBy' ]
    })
  ]
});

restrictToOwner

Due to improvements in the Feathers 4 database adapters restricting to an owner works the exact same as a queryWithCurrentUser. It will now throw a NotFound instead of a Forbidden error which is also more secure since an unauthorized user does not get the information if the record exists and no longer make an additional request.

Before:

const hooks = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  remove: [
    hooks.restrictToOwner({ idField: 'id', ownerField: 'sentBy' })
  ]
});

Now:

const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  remove: [
    setField({
      from: 'params.user.id',
      as: 'params.query.userId'
    })
  ]
});

associateCurrentUser

The associateCurrentUser can also be replaced by setField by setting data instead of params.query.*

Before:

const hooks = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  create: [
    hooks.associateCurrentUser({ idField: 'id', as: 'sentBy' })
  ]
});

Now:

const { setField } = require('feathers-authentication-hooks');

app.service('messages').before({
  create: [
    setField({
      from: 'params.user.id',
      as: 'data.sentBy'
    })
  ]
});

License

Copyright (c) 2019

Licensed under the MIT license.