Apollo onLogin token expiration in seconds

[websitevirtuoso]

What problem does this feature solve?

By documentation we have this.$apolloHelpers.onLogin(token /* if not default you can pass in client as second argument, you can set custom cookies attributes object as the third argument, and you can skip reset store as the fourth argument */)

We can set up ttl in days. But my App using ttl in seconds (2-5 hours for example)

Right now I extend my middleware like this one

export default function ({ app, error }) {
  const tokenExpireDateTime = app.$cookies.get(AUTH_TOKEN_EXPIRE)
  const tokenTtl = app.$moment(tokenExpireDateTime).diff(app.$moment(), 'seconds')
  const hasToken = !!app.$apolloHelpers.getToken()
  if (!hasToken || tokenTtl < 0) {
    error({ statusCode: 403, message: 'Permission denied', description: 'Sorry, you are forbidden from accessing this page.' })
  }

It solves a problem but anyway the best way use ttl in seconds

_{This feature request is available on Nuxt community (#c290)}

[Billybobbonnet]

Hello @websitevirtuoso,

I was looking for how to handle cookies expiration and found your issue. Are you making an additional cookie for the expiration date?

I wasted a bounty on SO for this, and I am still very confused about how it was meant to deal with. The auth example is incomplete as it does not cover this, nor the doc.

I would really appreciate advice on this.

[websitevirtuoso]

Yes right I have to make an additional cookie for the expiration date.

I will share my code to try help you https://gist.github.com/websitevirtuoso/f3681abd3f62520d32cce2b1ac1cfeed https://gist.github.com/websitevirtuoso/ff50344ca97f01bbcbaef6d3dbe48226

Hope it will help you. Let me know if you have any questions

[Billybobbonnet]

Sorry for the late answer! Thank you very much for your help. I'll start looking into it and let youknow how it goes.

Thank you again :smiley:

[philipptrenz]

Hey there, some notes from my side:

The expire time only gets interpreted as days, if you provide a number object. You can also set a Date object:

this.$apolloHelpers.onLogin(response.token, undefined, { expires: new Date(1612718343000), path: '/' }, false);