Chrichton

Chrichton

Programming Phoenix LiveView: B03 (page 56-57) auth exercise

Dear Sophie.
I tried to do the “Authorization” exercise and have two questions:

  1. When trying to plug in an email-service, I found the function “&Routes.user_confirmation_url(conn, :confirm, &1)” in “user_confirmation_controller.ex”.
    I wasn’t able to find this function.
    Where is it located or how is it created dynamically?

  2. I added the “username” field without problem, but when I set it to unique and made it safe with “unsafe_validate_unique(:username, Pento.Repo)” some tests failed. I tried to fix them via modifying the fixture()-Function, but still two test concerning the uniqueness of the “email” failed.
    Is there an easy way to get the generated tests running, when adding a second unique field?

Thanks for your superb book.
I learned a lot from this exercise, especially the sending of the confirmation-email via Bamboo and Sendgrid.

Best wishes from Heiko

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SophieDeBenedetto

SophieDeBenedetto

Author of Programming Phoenix LiveView

Hi again @Chrichton!

So the Routes.user_confirmation_url/3 isn’t defined as such in your router. It’s defined under the hood of Phoenix by virtue of the user_confirmation_path routes that were added to your router.ex file by the Phoenix Auth generator. The function itself is passed as an argument to the Accounts.deliver_user_confirmation_instructions/3 function in the UserConfirmationController controller. In that Accounts function, the Routes.user_confirmation_url/3 is finally invoked to return the user confirmation URL, with the correct user token, to be rendered in the email sent to the user. I would trace the code flow in the Accounts.deliver_user_confirmation_instructions/3 to get a better understanding of how the Routes.user_confirmation_url/3 function is being used.

Re: your exercise solution:

It looks like your solution will ensure that a user is redirected to the "/guess" route when the complete the log in process. But the challenge is actually asking you to ensure that if a user who is logged in visits /, that they get automatically redirected to /guess. You can solve this a few different ways.

  • Add a function plug to the :browser pipeline in the router.ex to redirect the user from / to /guess if they are logged in. Like this:
#router.ex
defmodule PentoWeb.Router do
  use PentoWeb, :router
  import Phoenix.Controller
  ...
  pipeline :browser do
    plug :accepts, ["html"]
    plug :fetch_session
    plug :fetch_live_flash
    plug :put_root_layout, {PentoWeb.LayoutView, :root}
    plug :protect_from_forgery
    plug :put_secure_browser_headers
    plug :fetch_current_user
    plug :redirect_if_logged_in # add me!
  end
  
  ...
  
  def redirect_if_logged_in(conn, _opts) do
    if conn.assigns.current_user && conn.request_path == "/" do
      redirect(conn, to: "/guess")
    end
    conn
  end
end

This requires importing the Phoenix.Controller module into the router to get the redirect/2 function, which I don’t love.

You could also add some logic to the PageLive live view’s mount function to do a redirect if there is a logged in user. This is the live view that handles the / route. It would look something like this:

# lib/pento_web/live/page_live.ex
 def mount(_params, %{"user_token" => _}, socket) do
    {:ok, redirect(socket, to: "/guess")}
  end

  def mount(_params, session, socket) do
    {:ok, assign(socket, query: "", results: %{})}
  end

Here, you are checking to see if there is a logged in user based on whether or not the session argument given to mount has a "user_token"key present. If so, there is a logged in user and you can use theredirect` function to do a redirect.

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