Constructor
new Authentication()
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- Tutorials:
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- Tutorial: tests/authentication/AuthenticationTest.js
Properties:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
user |
User | The user is a User object (User, Bot or Consultant) which is logged in and viewing the app with that user's perspective. To check whether some data is public/viewable/editable the app.user should be used to verify the permissions. If no user is logged in a special user "public" is logged in and used to calculate permissions. |
Extends
Members
login
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Contacts local or remote server to verify the username and password
provided in the user object. Upon success, calls the callback with the
user.
syncUserWithServer
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This function uses the quick authentication view to get the user's
password and authenticate them. The authenticate process brings down the
user from the server, and also gets their sesson token from couchdb
before calling the callback.
If there is no quick authentication view it takes them either to the user
page (in the ChromeApp) or the public user page (in a couchapp) where
they dont have to have a corpus token to see the data, and log in
user
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This function parses the server response and injects it into the authentication's user public and user private