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.

[macfan]

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?

https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-session-sharing

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.