Authenticate Meteor accounts with the Apollo GraphQL API

[abnios]

• @henok2424 prepared a client side tool for the SparkEd V2 and used apollo graphql to generate the api for sending data for the client side.

• The schemata prepared for the api are course, externalLink, resources, topic and unit. .

The needed feature in this issue is to have a feature that handles the user authentication and registration (login and register ) api that can get and post all the required data and communicate with the client side app.

[henok]

Cool project, but I think you tagged the wrong "Henok".

[OlivierJM]

Cool project, but I think you tagged the wrong "Henok".

Thanks a lot, will correct that.

[OlivierJM]

@henok2424 @abnios
So from the current codebase, it seems like the authentication is already done, you can check the initial changes that are here 56b1c0c

For the server to properly authenticate it needs a token from the client that it knows normally meteor stores is as Meteor.loginToken that looks like this R1MFnRwuM6LWMrrzQMRJ_8KfyNcEfZu_95VPn3Sqlz- The issue with this is that it will likely need to be used with a meteor client for it to generate a proper token.

I will still look more into this, it would help knowing how the client is architectured if a separate app. If we just need an API I had started designing sparked-server to fix some of the issues we had with V2 and make sure any type of client can connect to it.

We can talk more about this to have it well designed

[OlivierJM]

@henok2424 @abnios I still haven't found a way of integrating meteor accounts with apollo however I added instructions here how you can use the existing accounts via REST endpoint.
https://github.com/SparkEdUAB/SparkEd#authenticating-via-rest-endpoint
This should be able to help with the current issue of authentication

[henok2424]

thank your Oliver, for your solution. then I try this in the client-side its work well. can we add some fields from profile when the server response data like user name and grade ... , just like token and userId? Thanks again, Henok Tesfaye Software Engineer,SupEd PLC . Addis Ababa,Ethiopia Mobaile:+251913181457 Email: henimarly8@gmail.com,thenok@suped.org www.suped.org <https://github.com/henok2424> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/henok-tesfaye-6654b1133/>

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[OlivierJM]

thank your Oliver, for your solution. then I try this in the client-side its work well. can we add some fields from profile when the server response data like user name and grade ... , just like token and userId? Thanks again, Henok Tesfaye Software Engineer,SupEd PLC . Addis Ababa,Ethiopia Mobaile:+251913181457 Email: henimarly8@gmail.com,thenok@suped.org www.suped.org https://github.com/henok2424 https://www.linkedin.com/in/henok-tesfaye-6654b1133/
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 12:07 AM Olivier JM Maniraho < @.***> wrote: @henok2424 https://github.com/henok2424 @abnios https://github.com/abnios I still haven't found a way of integrating meteor accounts with apollo however I added instructions here how you can use the existing accounts via REST endpoint. https://github.com/SparkEdUAB/SparkEd#authenticating-via-rest-endpoint This should be able to help with the current issue of authentication — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHKL6BCCKDAMREZCKC2B57TR7W475ANCNFSM4PESMNQQ .

No on login we can't but since we have the userId we can pull back any other information related to that user. In fact I can add another endpoint for getting currentUser info that is available using the userId gotten from the login.
Let me know if this can work for you I can add it.