How do I set default values for users after SSO?

truetuna

I'm using the custom SSO plugin found here: https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth (with a few alterations). Inside the parseUserReturn function, I'm trying to set their default picture so:

var profile = {};

/* Required. */
profile.id = data.id;
profile.displayName = data.name;
profile.emails = [{ value: data.email }];

/* Optional. */
profile.picture = data.avatar;

callback(null, profile);

However, it seems to be ignored. What am I doing wrong?

I'm using NodeBB v0.7.3

edit: I'd also like to set defaults on user:*:settings to have followTopicsOnReply and followTopicsOnCreate to 1 after a successful sign up via SSO. Is this something I can do?

julian

Sure, so -- setting profile will only instruct the plugin to use the values as they are provided. After the user is created (that is, once you have a uid), you can reference the user library to do your own modifications:

var user = module.parent.require('user');

user.setUserField('picture', urlToPicture, function(err) {
    // ...
});

truetuna

Thanks @julian.

I was able to set the picture by extending the OAuth.login method (https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth/blob/master/library.js#L160-L213).

function _getAvatar(data) {
  ...
}

...
var success = function (uid) {
  // Save provider-specific information to the user
  User.setUserField(uid, constants.name + 'Id', payload.oAuthid);
  db.setObjectField(constants.name + 'Id:uid', payload.oAuthid, uid);

  var avatar = _getAvatar(payload.data);
  if (avatar) {
    User.setUserField(uid, 'picture', avatar);
    User.setUserField(uid, 'uploadedpicture', avatar);
  }
  ...

I'm not sure why but just updating the picture didn't seem to work. I had to update uploadedpicture as well.

The other thing I needed to do was change the settings. Turns out that user:*:settings isn't fully populated until I visit the settings page and click on "save settings". So what I ended up having to do was:

var mySettings = {};   // Custom settings.
User.saveSettings(uid, mySettings, function (err) {});

and that seemed to work.

julian

Thanks for checking back in!