JWT - now needs a plain user object

[ToMaple2]

In routes/users.js, the call to jwt.sign() now expects the user object to be a plain object instead of the one returned by User.getUserByUsername(). I'm getting:

Error: Expected "payload" to be a plain object.
    at validate (/Users/tmaple/.../node_modules/jsonwebtoken/sign.js:34:11)
    at validatePayload (/Users/tmaple/.../node_modules/jsonwebtoken/sign.js:56:10)
    at Object.module.exports [as sign] (/Users/tmaple/.../node_modules/jsonwebtoken/sign.js:108:7)
    at User.comparePassword (/Users/tmaple/.../routes/users.js:23:23)
    ...

So I added:

    const plainUserObject = {
        name: user.name,
        email: user.email,
        username: user.username,
        password: user.password
    }

and pass that into jwt.sign()

[ToMaple2]

Unfortunately, this "fix" appears to have a downstream effect. When calling tokenNotExpired() in auth.service.js, it always returns false.

[tomcatbuzz]

The payload function it is referring to is located in Passport.js and I am attaching the working code for that. I have forked this repo and will be commiting to a pull request. Not sure if this is the fix you are looking for or if you are running tests. I am bolding changes from the original.

const JwtStrategy = require('passport-jwt').Strategy; const ExtractJwt = require('passport-jwt').ExtractJwt; const User = require('../models/user'); const config = require('../config/database');

module.exports = function(passport) { let opts = {}; opts.jwtFromRequest = ExtractJwt.fromAuthHeaderWithScheme('jwt'); opts.secretOrKey = config.secret; passport.use(new JwtStrategy(opts, (jwt_payload, done) => { User.getUserById(jwt_payload.data._id, (err, user) => { if(err) { return done(err, false); }

  if(user) {
    return done(null, user);
  } else {
    return done(null, false);
  }
});

})); }

[nupurkulkarni411]

even after making changes in passport.js as mentioned by @tomcatbuzz I am getting same error

[tomcatbuzz]

What is the error you are getting?

[xmatzx]

@tomcatbuzz i also made the changes in passport.js as you mentioned and still get the same error: Error: Expected "payload" to be a plain object.

[tomcatbuzz]

@xmatzx Brad's github repo has been updated with the changes, so you need to follow the directions for installing and running the backend nodejs and front end Angular 5. You will also need to create a database on Mlab for when you get ready to deploy to Heroku. Just check all your code in App.js and passport, to make sure you don't have a typing error.

[Rafael955]

@ToMaple2 your solution worked for me