Cookies

[fabioziliani]

Is it possible to manage cookies? Or is there a better way to manage authentication?

[RobinTail]

Hello @fabioziliani ,

In order to manage (read and set) cookies, you might need to connect cookie-parser express middleware.
https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#req.cookies

You can achieve it by using .use() or .addExpressMiddleware() method of EndpointsFactory.

After that, request.cookies will be populated by the received cookies. In order to handle them (for authentication purposes) you can write a middleware like this:

const authMw = createMiddleware({
  input: z.object({}),
  middleware: async ({request, response}) => {
    const { cookies } = request; // here are your cookies
    // do something
    response.cookie('anotherOne', 'some value'); // send another cookie
    return { cookies }; // provide cookies to other middlewares and endpoint handlers as options
    // or just return { isAuthenticated: true } // depending on received cookie examination
  }
});

so the final assembly would look this way:

const myFactory = defaultEndpointsFactory
  .use(cookieParser())
  .addMiddleware(authMw);
const myEndpoint = myFactory.build({ /* ... */ });

response.cookie is also accessible in a custom ResultHandler.

If this approach is not enough for your case, please provide more details on what exactly is missing or would be great to have.

[fabioziliani]

Hello @RobinTail and thanks for the reply.
It works; consider writing this also in the docs.
Thanks again.