Get current login user sails.js + passport.js

Question

I am new to passport and sails.js. I created an user login follow by this article. It's work fine and I can do both login and logout.

However, I try to access current login user in some Controller but I cannot get the user data.

I have reading some topic here and it said something likes this

test : function(req,res){
    console.log(req.user);
}

I try this with my TestController.js

module.exports = {
    test : function(req,res){
        console.log(req.user);
        res.send("test");
        res.status(200).end();
    }
};

I got undefined.

its get `undefined` because you not passing the session of user in your test Controller — Akhilesh Singh, Jun 18 '16 at 13:00
`test : function(req,res){ console.log(req.session.user); }` check this — Akhilesh Singh, Jun 18 '16 at 13:04
@AkhileshSingh I still got undefined with `req.session.user` — Natsathorn, Jun 18 '16 at 13:06
Ok it's work now with your comment I realize to check something in deserialize function. and I see that something wrong with field name. — Natsathorn, Jun 18 '16 at 13:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

I have fixing this problem Thanks to @godfather

Before you can access to user object from request you have to deserialize it first.

passport.deserializeUser(function (id, done) {
    User.findOne({
        id: id 
    }, function (err, user) {
        delete user.password
        done(err, user);
    });
});

This deserializeUser function will attach your user object to request object. So, this will make you can access to current login user from other Controller.

More information here : Understanding passport serialize deserialize

Get current login user sails.js + passport.js

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