Alert admins if their session has expired so they don't lose their work

[kgardnr]

Story: As a moderator, I want to know when my admin session has expired so I don't try and take actions that won't save

[Goyapa]

@kgardnr I'd like to tackle this issue.

[kgardnr]

Great @Goyapa, we'd love to have your help with this!

[Goyapa]

Hello @kgardnr, what I have found:

Client: Toast and default pym used. Server: Passport and json web token(jwt).

On the client I found info(msg)? /talk/client/coral-admin/src/services/notification.js

export function createNotificationService(toast) {
  return {
    success(msg) {
      toast(msg, {type: 'success'});
    },
    error(msg) {
      toast(msg, {type: 'error'});
    },
    info(msg) {
      toast(msg, {type: 'info'});
    },
  };
}

Actually I see only fragments and do not see the whole picture, could I get some more info please.

[kgardnr]

Ok great - so I think what you wanna do is detect if a session has expired for the current user, right? And then use the notification service to deliver an error message.

[Goyapa]

What I found is that sessions expires after 24 hours. For current user I'm not sure where to look at. Can you point me in the right direction? Actually I try at talk/client/coral-admin/src/actions/auth.js but than i have to import

import {toast} from 'react-toastify';
import {createNotificationService} from '../services/notification.js';

do not think that is the right way?

[Goyapa]

@cvle with JWT debugger I am able to change "exp" and see the following errors in console. So, set reproduceable "exp" time works as expected.

I hoped to get an error pointing me to the users "exp" settings. Is this implemented jet? But the last times I asked, it actually was... I got stuck and need some more information.

[wyattjoh]

The exp claim is the definition of when the user would be logged out with that token. My suggestion, set a timeout for when that expiry time is reached to display some sort of UI reflecting the fact that their user session has expired, and prompt them to login again.

[Goyapa]

Ok, thank you @wyattjoh for your suggestion, i'm onto it again!

[kgardnr]

Hey @Goyapa if you still wants to work on this, just make sure you follow the upgrade instructions for v4.0.0: https://coralproject.github.io/talk/migration/4/

[wyattjoh]

Fixed in v5.