Passport JS and restify and Client sessions - node.js

Question

I'm stuck on an error with passport. I am building an api that is using restify. I am using client-session for session and passport with google oauth 2.
I am having trouble at the point it would serialise the user and create a session. I seem to be getting no errors however it is printing out large node objects to the console.
var restify = require('restify');
var massive = require('massive');
var passport = require('passport');
var GoogleStrategy = require('passport-google-oauth2').Strategy;
var _ = require('lodash');
var sessions = require("client-sessions");
var app = function(config, done) {
// declare DB and server
var server = restify.createServer(),
db;
// Set server settings
server.use(restify.bodyParser());
server.pre(restify.pre.sanitizePath());
server.use(restify.queryParser());
server.use(sessions({
// cookie name dictates the key name added to the request object
cookieName: 'Skyrail_session',
// should be a large unguessable string
secret: 'abc123yyighhcggfgucgdguhvgcydtfugjvhfguijkvhgcfgvcfg',
// how long the session will stay valid in ms
duration: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
activeDuration: 1000 * 60 * 5
}));
server.use(passport.initialize());
server.use(passport.session());
server.use(function logger(req, res, next) {
console.log(new Date(), req.method, req.url);
next();
});
server.on('uncaughtException', function(request, response, route, error) {
console.error(error.stack);
response.send(error);
});
// passport auth settings
passport.use(new GoogleStrategy({
clientID: ID,
clientSecret: SECRET,
callbackURL: 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/oauth2callback',
passReqToCallback: true
},
function(request, accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
var isEmail = false;
for (var i = profile.emails.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (_.endsWith(profile.emails[i].value, 'test.co.uk')) {
isEmail = true;
}
};
if (isEmail) {
// do user stuff
done(null, profile);
} else {
done(null, profile);
}
}
));
passport.serializeUser(function(user, done) {
console.log('serializing user.');
done(null, user.id);
});
passport.deserializeUser(function(user, done) {
console.log('deserialize user.');
done(null, user.id);
});
// connect to the database
massive.connect({
connectionString: config.postgres.conString
}, function(err, massiveInstance) {
db = massiveInstance;
done();
});
var google = passport.authenticate('google', {
scope: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile'
});
var googleCallback = passport.authenticate('google');
var authenticate = passport.authenticate('google', {
successRedirect: '/success',
failureRedirect: '/fail'
})
// setup shceduler
var scheduler = require('node-schedule');
// return the appropriate method and objects.
return {
server: server,
db: db,
authenticate: authenticate,
google: google,
googleCallback: googleCallback,
scheduler: scheduler
}
};
module.exports = app
It all works fine and I end up at google accept and then when it gets to this point.
passport.serializeUser(function(user, done) {
console.log('serializing user.');
done(null, user.id);
});
it logs to the console and then starts throwing out node objects. I am pretty sure it has something to do with setting the cooking.
I am at a bit of loss as how to debug. There is not much information about using passport with restify.

Answer 1

Old question, but see my answer here for an example of how to use client-session with Passport.
TL;DR: set {cookieName: 'session'} (not "Skyrail_session") and serialize the entire user object, not just the ID. You may need to use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() if Passport doesn't do this for you.