Display error message from Social logins

[geekyme]

Hello there,

I am having trouble displaying my sign up error messages for a user social login account. I have a Accounts.validateNewUser hook that makes sure all new users (whether social login or password login) should have a unique email.

Here's my code :

// server
  Accounts.validateNewUser(function (user) {
    // email must be unique
    if(Meteor.users.find({email: user.email}).count()){
      throw new Meteor.Error(403, "This email is already taken.");
    }else{
      return true;
    }
  });

The specific use case over here is when my app has 2 forms of login: normal password & social login. Take for instance a user has sign up with abc@abc.com.

Afterwards, he attempt to sign up again with his social network account that has the same email registered: abc@abc.com. In this case, I would want to prompt the user that the email is being taken.

However I see I couldn't do that currently. accounts-entry with social logins configured with fail silently if there is already a user registered with the same email.

[geekyme]

I hack around the source code in social.coffee, I found that I am able to do what I want by adding an additional line before

Accounts._loginButtonsSession.errorMessage(err.reason || t9n("error.unknown"))

to become

Session.set('entryError', err.reason)
Accounts._loginButtonsSession.errorMessage(err.reason || t9n("error.unknown"))

[queso]

The question is, if you set the Session, we need to clean it up too. Where do we clean it up at?

[geekyme]

I don't know. My solution is hacky at best. I was actually hoping you have a more permanent solution to this.

On 1 Jul, 2014, at 10:47 pm, "Josh Owens" notifications@github.com wrote:

The question is, if you set the Session, we need to clean it up too. Where do we clean it up at?

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[geekyme]

Regarding this issue, I looked at some of your source code for generating the errors in the 'register' form:

https://github.com/Differential/accounts-entry/blob/master/client/views/signUp/signUp.coffee#L112-L125

They are setting entryError in the same way I am suggesting in the errors over here for the social logins:

https://github.com/Differential/accounts-entry/blob/master/client/views/social/social.coffee#L36-L41

I edited the issue title to be clearer. I'm looking for a way to show the error messages from a social login.