Get current user session

nfell2009

Hi,

So we're planning on switching from Discourse to NodeBB (currently sorting out a new set of forums ready for release). While NodeBB has been amazing so far, we've come into struggles with using a NodeBB account externally. In Discourse you can do http://example.com/session/current.json and get the current viewers user information. But with NodeBB we're unable to actually find a way of doing it.

I've tried looking around the NodeBB GitHub but found nothing. I have also tried making a plugin for it, but can't get it to work that way either. So I'd love to know if there is already a way or if someone can help me out with my plugin:
https://github.com/wrong7/nodebb-plugin-skunity/blob/master/skunity.js

Any and all help is appreciated!

Thank you :)

nfell2009

Anyone? :(

baris

We could possibly add a /api/me page that returns some info about the current logged in user. What kind of info you need?

nfell2009

@baris Just a basic overview. Kinda like a JSON form of a users profile as if it was being viewed publicly. We do an AJAX request and get the information. Example from Discourse:

{
   "current_user":{
      "id":7,
      "username":"nfell2009",
      "avatar_template":"/user_avatar/nfell2009/{size}/3095_1.png",
      "name":"nfell2009",
      "total_unread_notifications":16,
      "unread_notifications":0,
      "unread_private_messages":0,
      "admin":false,
      "notification_channel_position":null,
      "site_flagged_posts_count":0,
      "moderator":true,
      "staff":true,
      "title":"Your friendly neighbourhood moderator",
      "reply_count":727,
      "topic_count":35,
      "enable_quoting":true,
      "external_links_in_new_tab":true,
      "dynamic_favicon":false,
      "trust_level":4,
      "can_edit":true,
      "can_invite_to_forum":true,
      "should_be_redirected_to_top":false,
      "disable_jump_reply":false,
      "custom_fields":null,
      "muted_category_ids":[

      ],
      "dismissed_banner_key":null,
      "is_anonymous":false,
      "post_queue_new_count":0,
      "read_faq":true,
      "automatically_unpin_topics":true
   }
}

Thanks for your reply :)

baris

Alright since we already have this data when you go to /api/user/<userslug> we can just return the same info when you go to /me.

nfell2009

@baris That would be perfect!