Documentation for accessing user outside of a view

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Documentation for accessing user outside of a view

Closed this issue 14 years ago · 4 comments

everyauth.user is undefined unless you're in a view.

Answer 1 · 2011-05-10T18:31:06.000Z

This information is in the README. The README specifies that everyauth.user is a view helper. If you want user in the context of a request handler (with access to req), then you can use req.user to access the user.

Answer 2 · 2011-05-10T19:32:08.000Z

Ah, well there it is, req.user. I swear I read the entire README and didn't find that.

Thanks!

Answer 3 · 2011-05-11T04:56:28.000Z

Yeah, maybe I should re-write in a manner to make it stand out more.

Answer 4 · 2011-09-28T13:45:50.000Z

I have a similiar issue. The problem is that my "req.user" is always undefined. Even if I define a "findUserById function" (will never executed). I would appreciate that if you have the time to look at my app.js: https://gist.github.com/1247956 - Thank you very much in advance.