Extending keystone-6/auth sessionData

[noor-codes]

Session Data

Explanation

In KeystoneJS, the easiest and fun way to implement auth globally in the entire app is to inject data into the session in auth.ts file as highlighted down below where I can have access to id, name, email and role of the user with all the permissions.

const { withAuth } = createAuth({
  listKey: 'User',
  identityField: 'email',

+  sessionData: `id name email   
+ role {
+     ${permissionsList.join(' ')}
+      name
+    }
+  `,

  secretField: 'password',
  initFirstItem: {
    fields: ['name', 'email', 'password']
  }
})

Problem

1: The sessionData field is mapped to querying the data on the User table in my case.
2: If I want to access data that isn't in the User table. I need to make relationship with that field to be able to query it and stick it in the session.

query {
  user(where: {id: "cl077jpxk0079c8gppukswjx5"}) {
    id
    name
    username
    email
    role {
      id
      name
    }
  }
}

What I want

• I want to be able to stick some data from a table that has no relationship with the user table, like Global Settings Table.
• Keystone should let me put anything in the session, right now I am limited to users table only on the condition to include other tables if there is a relationship between User and that table.
• In my case, I have Control table that has no relationship with other tables and I want the dark_mode field to be in the session.
• I also added checks to make sure there will be only one row here.

I'd be glad if anyone shows me a way around it.
Thanks.

[emmatown]

You can do this by augmenting the session config like this:

const ksConfig = withAuth(
  config({
    // your keystone config
  })
);

export default config({
  ...ksConfig,
  session: {
    ...ksConfig.session!,
    async get(args) {
      const control = await args
        .createContext({ sudo: true })
        .query.Control.findOne({ where: { id: 'whatever' } });
      return {
        ...ksConfig.session!.get(args),
        control,
      };
    },
  },
});

[noor-codes]

Wow! Thank You so much!

[noor-codes]

I'll give it a try.