Does passport.authenticated provide a callback

[zacharynevin]

Earlier in my application, I was simply using session based authentication with passport. For this, passport provides a method called isAuthenticated().

However, now I don't have isAuthenticated() because I'm using token based authentication. Before, I had a middleware function called ensureAuth that would check if the user is authentication by the isAuthenticated function. I don't really want to split the ensureAuth function into two - one for the passport.authorize() function and one for the small step I intend to do afterwards before moving onto the next middleware. Let me explain.

For example, my current code is like this:

ensureAuth: function(req, res, next) {  
  // authenticate using the token authentication strategy
  passport.authenticate('bearer', { session: false })
  // user object stored in req.user
  // set req.user.model as the single table inheritance model of the user (e.g. A or B)
  // (I used to do rails and some conventions stuck)
  var UserModel = app.get('Model.'+_str.capitalize(req.user.get('role')))
  req.user.role = new UserModel({ id: req.user.id })
  next();
}

and I want to do something more like this, because the example above doesn't work:

ensureAuth: function(req, res, next) {  
  // authenticate using the token authentication strategy
  passport.authenticate('bearer', { session: false }, function() {
    // user object stored in req.user
    // set req.user.model as the single table inheritance model of the user (e.g. A or B)
    var UserModel = app.get('Model.'+_str.capitalize(req.user.get('role')))
    req.user.role = new UserModel({ id: req.user.id })
    next();
  })
}

So I guess my question is: does passport.authenticated() provide a callback? I couldn't find mention of it in the documentation.

Sorry if I sound like an idiot :(

[zacharynevin]

I think I found it on StackOverflow. Sorry for wasting your time!

passport.authenticate('bearer', { session: false }, function(err, user, info) {
})

[zacharynevin]

Actually, I'm reopening the issue as this didn't work.

[zacharynevin]

Sorry again! I found a solution using passReqToCallback.

[J-Gonzalez]

@zacharynevin - Can you provide more details on your solution?