Is it possible to use my application user name and id instead of creating new account in nodebb with random uid?

venkAT

@julian I am trying to use my own application user details (username and userID)

Example:

{
   username: 'venkat',
   userId : "2a5t8862-88k52-48569df5"
}

can I use above user details for nodebb.

As of now nodebb is creating incremental id (uid)
instead of that uid, can i use my own userId as nodebb
uid

Present Nodebb user details:

{
   username: "venkat",
   uid: 5
}

my requirement is

{
  username: 'venkat',
  uid: '2a5t8862-88k52-48569df5'
}

is there any way to implement the above requirement ?

CC: @vinu

PitaJ

@venkat you want to store a map in the database, mapping NodeBB uids to your userId format.

cronlabspl

Same situation here.
We have all our internal services (Marketing, Accounts, Shells, Mail, Forum etc) where users use same useraccount for loging-in.

Every service works except forum. Ive done as @PitaJ suggested above but no luck.

Anyone ?

PitaJ

What did you try? Have you seen the session sharing plugin?

venkAT

@pitaj Is it possible to add nodebb uid as a string

I did some code change in Nodebb repo for adding string as a uid, it is storing but while accessing I am not getting the proper data.

can you suggest me the better solution?

I need to use my identifier(string) as a nodebb uid instead of auto increment uid(number) ?

PitaJ

@venkat have you looked at the session sharing plugin?

GitHub - julianlam/nodebb-plugin-session-sharing: Allows login sessions from your app to persist in NodeBB

Allows login sessions from your app to persist in NodeBB - julianlam/nodebb-plugin-session-sharing

GitHub (github.com)

It provide functions for retrieving the NodeBB id from your id.

Using that plugin is the recommended way of sharing sessions between applications.

Changing the NodeBB id format is a futile effort. You can't just change it to a string. The closest you can do is map your id to the NodeBB id.