Not able to set generated access_token in request object - jwt

Question

I am authenticating user with the help of JWT token and #nestjs/passport library. I am able to successfully generate and return the access token but stuck at how to set it in the req object. So that I can validate other api routes until user logs out
Below code shows how I generated the access_token and returned to the calling point
let payload = { username: user.email, sub: user.id }
const accessToken = this.jwtService.sign(payload);
return {
expires_in: 3600,
access_token: accessToken,
status: 200
}
I am getting the access_token correctly. I verified generated access_token using https://jwt.io/ debugger and results were correct.
Can someone help me in setting up the req object with access_token?

Answer 1

There is multiple way you could send JWT token in your requests. If you have followed this tutorial: https://docs.nestjs.com/techniques/authentication, you are using passport-jwt library for JWT. One way is through header if you don't set auth schema it will be this one:
Authorization: JWT <-HERE YOU SHOULD INSERT TOKEN->
If you set authSchema to be bearer, then you could use this header like this:
Authorization: BEARER <-HERE YOU SHOULD INSERT TOKEN->
Except for that you can put your JWT into URL like this:
https://example.com/me?auth_token=<-HERE YOU SHOULD INSERT TOKEN->
Or in object body that you are sending with property named auth_token:
https://example.com/me
Body:
{
auth_token: <-HERE YOU SHOULD INSERT TOKEN->
}
You can find this in the source code of passport-jwt in this file.