Jason Posthuma

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> Could you please add some test cases so we can better understand the feature? @davimacedo - done. Thanks for keeping me honest :)

I also updated description (complete with a code snippet!) to better explain my implementation

@davimacedo - got a minute to look at this?

> Sorry for the delay but I am not sure if I understood the purpose of the PR yet. Why would someone call the login endpoint in this scenario? Would...

> I think we can document the feature at Parse Server guide: https://docs.parseplatform.org/parse-server/guide/ Done. https://github.com/parse-community/docs/pull/819

I think what @sunshineo and I are trying to do is a growing use case. Essentially - using a completely external _authentication_ scheme while continuing to leverage the _authorization_ mechanism...

But this won't manage the user state in the ways that I need (eg: setting the `installationId`). The functionality here still needs to execute when I'm logging in with my...

For the immediate use-case, I need the session to be created. However, to create a simplified development experience, I'd also like to support the triggers.

@mtrezza @davimacedo - any word on this?

> Why don't you write a middleware before parse-server is mounted to handle the login endpoint? It's brittle and not DRY, as it requires me to re-create the login sequence...