sails.js + passport.js : managing sessions - sails.js

Question

I am trying to implement a facebook connection in sails using passport. Therefore, I've created a passport.js file in my services folder, the code is given below. It looks like the login is done successfully, however the user serialization doesn't seem to work as the console.log that I put in it never appears in the console and I cannot access the user id trhough req.user once the user is supposed to be logged in. Did anyone managed to get passport working with sails?
var passport = require('passport')
, FacebookStrategy = require('passport-facebook').Strategy,
bcrypt = require('bcrypt');
// helper functions
function findById(id, fn) {
User.findOne(id).done( function(err, user){
if (err){
return fn(null, null);
}else{
return fn(null, user);
}
});
}
function findByUsername(u, fn) {
User.findOne({
username: u
}).done(function(err, user) {
// Error handling
if (err) {
return fn(null, null);
// The User was found successfully!
}else{
return fn(null, user);
}
});
}
// Passport session setup.
// To support persistent login sessions, Passport needs to be able to
// serialize users into and deserialize users out of the session. Typically,
// this will be as simple as storing the user ID when serializing, and finding
// the user by ID when deserializing.
passport.serializeUser(function(user, done) {
console.log("utilisateur serilizé!");
done(null, user.uid);
});
passport.deserializeUser(function(id, done) {
//console.log("coucou");
findById(id, function (err, user) {
done(err, user);
});
});
// Use the LocalStrategy within Passport.
// Strategies in passport require a `verify` function, which accept
// credentials (in this case, a username and password), and invoke a callback
// with a user object.
// using https://gist.github.com/theangryangel/5060446
// as an example
passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({
clientID: 'XXX',
clientSecret: 'XXX',
callbackURL: "http://localhost:1337/callback"
},
function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
User.findOne({uid: profile.id}, function(err, user) {
if (err) { return done(err); }
if (user) {
//console.log('momo');
User.update({uid : user.uid},{token : accessToken},function(){done(null, user);});
} else {
console.log(profile);
var user_data = {
token : accessToken
, provider: profile.provider
, alias: profile.username
, uid: profile.id
, created: new Date().getTime()
, name: {
first: profile.name.givenName
, last: profile.name.familyName
}
, alerts: {
email: true
, mobile: false
, features: true
}
};
console.log(user_data);
User.create(user_data).done(function(err, user) {
console.log(err);
if(err) { console.log("err");throw err; }
done(null, user);
});
}
});
}
));

Answer 1

While I do not have a direct answer for you, this was extremely useful to when getting it to work with GitHub OAuth: https://github.com/stefanbuck/sails-social-auth-example/blob/master/config/middleware.js
This is an entire, recent, Sails.js application implementing passport so it might be of use to you to side-by-side the two in the debugger and find out what is going on.

Answer 2

Check out this easy and full implementation for sails.js with passport.js supporting both Email, Twitter and Facebook.
https://github.com/bmustata/sails-auth-super-template