Auth doesn't work with non default local.userEndpoint

[juodumas]

Auth doesn't work when using a custom userEndpoint (app.configure(authentication({local: {userEndpoint: '/api/users'}}))). Confirmed in 2 cases:

• with a custom idField on feather-memory service
• with feathers-nedb (simply app.use('users', nedbService({Model: db})))
• didn't test other DBs

A gist with feathers-memory: https://gist.github.com/juodumas/67793c57ebbbde0e5e606b43675dea5e

When using feathers-rest, server log shows:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'get' of undefined
    at <...>/feathers-authentication/lib/hooks/populate-user.js:30:45 

When using sockets, app.authenticate() is rejected and returns the hook object.

[ekryski]

@juodumas you need to specify your idField in your authentication config and bring the userEndpoint top level.

app.configure(authentication({
  idField: 'id',
  userEndpoint: '/api/users'
}

You can find all the config options here: http://docs.feathersjs.com/authentication/readme.html. Also make sure you are using v0.7 as some of those options had changed from v0.5.

[juodumas]

No, that's not it. Just try setting up feathers-nedb auth with any custom userEndpoint.

[ekryski]

@juodumas ok well if you are using nedb then your idField needs to be _id. You said you were using feathers-memory.

[ekryski]

I think in order to help out I'd need to see more code. If you want to fire a link to the app or add a gist that would be great.

[juodumas]

The key was putting userEndpoint at the top level of auth options, just as you said initially. Missed it, sorry.

Would it be possible for feathers to be more verbose about such errors to help later newcomers like me? Right now when I incorrectly set local: {userEndpoint: '/api/users'}, app.authenticate() got rejected and returned the following object over sockets, but otherwise feathers was silent. Only later when testing did I add feathers-rest and saw an exception in the server log. Why is an exception thrown when using rest and not thrown when using sockets?

{
  "hook": {
    "data": {
      "id": "admin",
      "email": "admin",
      "password": "$2a$10$eWUbRA52A2H/899dnNPPru2EpMf8cFqNiw8KK5I24SrJaz6.9MBfK",
      "_id": "2e42YoJFgqRHo6AB"
    },
    "params": {
      "data": {
        "id": "admin",
        "email": "admin",
        "password": "$2a$10$eWUbRA52A2H/899dnNPPru2EpMf8cFqNiw8KK5I24SrJaz6.9MBfK",
        "_id": "2e42YoJFgqRHo6AB"
      }
    },
    "method": "create",
    "type": "after",
    "result": {
      "_id": "2e42YoJFgqRHo6AB",
      "token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJfaWQiOiIyZTQyWW9KRmdxUkhvNkFCIiwiaWF0IjoxNDYwNzA1MTk2LCJleHAiOjE0NjA3OTE1OTYsImlzcyI6ImZlYXRoZXJzIn0.u6-2eu4FHfwAyP4_4_QAOudhMJf3hsBGWUj1b03EIvc"
    }
  }
}

Thanks for the replies.