AngularDevise

A small AngularJS Service to interact with Devise Authentication.

Requirements

This service requires Devise to respond to JSON. To do that, simply add

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  respond_to :html, :json
  # ...
end

Aditionally, if you have CSRF Forgery Protection enabled for your controller actions, you will also need to include the X-CSRF-TOKEN header with the token provided by rails. The easiest way to include this is to use the ng-rails-csrf gem. You may also setup rails to include a XSRF-TOKEN cookie, which Angular uses automatically.

Downloading

AngularDevise is registered as angular-devise in bower.

bower install --save angular-devise

You can then use the main file at angular-devise/lib/devise-min.js.

Usage

Just register Devise as a dependency for your module. Then, the Auth service will be available for use.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        // Configure Auth service with AuthProvider
    }).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        // Use your configured Auth service.
    });

Auth.currentUser()

Auth.currentUser() returns a promise that will be resolved into the currentUser. There are three possible outcomes:

1. Auth has authenticated a user, and will resolve with that user.
2. Auth has not authenticated a user but the server has a previously authenticated session, Auth will attempt to retrieve that session and resolve with its user. Then, a devise:new-session event will be broadcast with the current user as the argument.
3. Neither Auth nor the server has an authenticated session, and an unresolved promise will be returned. (see Interceptor for rationale.)

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        Auth.currentUser().then(function(user) {
            // User was logged in, or Devise returned
            // previously authenticated session.
            console.log(user); // => {id: 1, ect: '...'}
        }, function(error) {
            // unauthenticated error
        });
    });

Auth._currentUser

Auth._currentUser will be either null or the currentUser's object representation. It is not recommended to directly access Auth._currentUser, but instead use Auth.currentUser().

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        console.log(Auth._currentUser); // => null

        // Log in user...

        console.log(Auth._currentUser); // => {id: 1, ect: '...'}
    });

Auth.isAuthenticated()

Auth.isAuthenticated() is a helper method to determine if a currentUser is logged in with Auth.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        console.log(Auth.isAuthenticated()); // => false

        // Log in user...

        console.log(Auth.isAuthenticated()); // => true
    });

Auth.login(creds)

Use Auth.login() to authenticate with the server. Keep in mind, credentials are sent in plaintext; use a SSL connection to secure them. creds is an object which should contain any credentials needed to authenticate with the server. Auth.login() will return a promise that will resolve to the logged-in user. See Auth.parse(response) to customize how the response is parsed into a user.

Upon a successful login, two events will be broadcast, devise:login and devise:new-session, both with the currentUser as the argument. New-Session will only be broadcast if the user was logged in by Auth.login({...}). If the server has a previously authenticated session, only the login event will be broadcast.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        var credentials = {
            email: '[email protected]',
            password: 'password1'
        };

        Auth.login(credentials).then(function(user) {
            console.log(user); // => {id: 1, ect: '...'}
        }, function(error) {
            // Authentication failed...
        });

        $scope.$on('devise:login', function(event, currentUser) {
            // after a login, a hard refresh, a new tab
        });

        $scope.$on('devise:new-session', function(event, currentUser) {
            // user logged in by Auth.login({...})
        });
    });

By default, login will POST to '/users/sign_in.json'. The path and HTTP method used to login are configurable using:

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        AuthProvider.loginPath('path/on/server.json');
        AuthProvider.loginMethod('GET');
    });

Auth.logout()

Use Auth.logout() to de-authenticate from the server. Auth.logout() returns a promise that will be resolved to the old currentUser. Then a devise:logout event will be broadcast with the old currentUser as the argument.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        // Log in user...
        // ...
        Auth.logout().then(function(oldUser) {
            // alert(oldUser.name + "you're signed out now.");
        }, function(error) {
            // An error occurred logging out.
        });

        $scope.$on('devise:logout', function(event, oldCurrentUser) {
            // ...
        });
    });

By default, logout will DELETE to '/users/sign_out.json'. The path and HTTP method used to logout are configurable using:

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        AuthProvider.logoutPath('path/on/server.json');
        AuthProvider.logoutMethod('GET');
    });

Auth.parse(response)

This is the method used to parse the $http response into the appropriate user object. By default, it simply returns response.data. This can be customized either by specifying a parse function during configuration:

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        // Customize user parsing
        // NOTE: **MUST** return a truth-y expression
        AuthProvider.parse(function(response) {
            return response.data.user;
        });
    });

or by directly overwriting it, perhaps when writing a custom version of the Auth service which depends on another service:

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
  factory('User', function() {
    // Custom user factory
  }).
  factory('CustomAuth', function(Auth, User) {
    Auth['parse'] = function(response) {
      return new User(response.data);
    };
    return Auth;
  });

Auth.register(creds)

Use Auth.register() to register and authenticate with the server. Keep in mind, credentials are sent in plaintext; use a SSL connection to secure them. creds is an object that should contain any credentials needed to register with the server. Auth.register() will return a promise that will resolve to the registered user. See Auth.parse(response) to customize how the response is parsed into a user. Then a devise:new-registration event will be broadcast with the user object as the argument.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    controller('myCtrl', function(Auth) {
        var credentials = {
            email: '[email protected]',
            password: 'password1',
            password_confirmation: 'password1'
        };

        Auth.register(credentials).then(function(registeredUser) {
            console.log(registeredUser); // => {id: 1, ect: '...'}
        }, function(error) {
            // Registration failed...
        });

        $scope.$on('devise:new-registration', function(event, user) {
            // ...
        });
    });

By default, register will POST to '/users.json'. The path and HTTP method used to register are configurable using:

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        AuthProvider.registerPath('path/on/server.json');
        AuthProvider.registerMethod('GET');
    });

Interceptor

AngularDevise creates an $http Interceptor that listens for 401 Unauthorized response codes. Its purpose is to catch unauthorized requests on-the-fly and seamlessly recover. When it catches a 401, it will:

1. create a deferred
2. broadcast a devise:unauthorized event passing:
   • the ajax response
   • the deferred
3. return the deferred's promise

Since the deferred is passed to the devise:unauthorized event, you are free to resolve it (and the request) inside of the event listener. For instance:

angular.module('myModule', []).
    controller('myCtrl', function($scope, Auth, $http) {
        // Guest user

        // Catch unauthorized requests and recover.
        $scope.$on('devise:unauthorized', function(event, xhr, deferred) {
            // Ask user for login credentials

            Auth.login(credentials).then(function() {
                // Successfully logged in.
                // Redo the original request.
                return $http(xhr.config);
            }).then(function(response) {
                // Successfully recovered from unauthorized error.
                // Resolve the original request's promise.
                deferred.resolve(response);
            }, function(error) {
                // There was an error.
                // Reject the original request's promise.
                deferred.reject(error);
            });
        });

        // Request requires authorization
        // Will cause a `401 Unauthorized` response,
        // that will be recovered by our listener above.
        $http.delete('/users/1').then(function(response) {
            // Deleted user 1
        }, function(error) {
            // Something went wrong.
        });
    });

The Interceptor can be disabled globally or on a per-request basis using the ignoreAuth setting.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        // Ignore 401 Unauthorized everywhere
        AuthProvider.ignoreAuth(true);
    }).
    controller('myCtrl', function($http) {
        // Enable per-request
        $http({
            url: '/',
            ignoreAuth: false,
            // ...
        });
    });

AuthProvider

By default, AngularDevise uses the following HTTP methods/paths:

Method	HTTP Method	HTTP Path
login	POST	/users/sign_in.json
logout	DELETE	/users/sign_out.json
register	POST	/users.json

The following parse function:

function(response) {
    return response.data;
};

And will intercept all 401 Unauthorized responses.

All of these can be configured using a .config block in your module.

angular.module('myModule', ['Devise']).
    config(function(AuthProvider) {
        // Customize login
        AuthProvider.loginMethod('GET');
        AuthProvider.loginPath('/admins/login.json');

        // Customize logout
        AuthProvider.logoutMethod('POST');
        AuthProvider.logoutPath('/user/logout.json');

        // Customize register
        AuthProvider.registerMethod('PATCH');
        AuthProvider.registerPath('/user/sign_up.json');

        // Ignore 401 Unauthorized everywhere
        // Disables `devise:unauthorized` interceptor
        AuthProvider.ignoreAuth(true);

        // Customize user parsing
        // NOTE: **MUST** return a truth-y expression
        AuthProvider.parse(function(response) {
            return response.data.user;
        });
    });

Credits

AngularDevise is maintained by Cloudspace, and is distributed under the MIT License.