Ember Simple Auth Pouch

This is Ember addon is an extension to the Ember Simple Auth library that provides a way to authenticate to a CouchDB server using pouchdb-authentication.

Because user's credentials and tokens are exchanged between the Ember.js app and the server, you must use HTTPS for this connection!

Installation

Ember Simple Auth Token can be installed with Ember CLI by running:

ember install ember-simple-auth-pouch

Setup

Authenticator

In order to use the pouch authenticator, the application should have a route for login. In most cases, the login route will display a form with a username and password field. On form submit, the authenticate action will be called on the session:

// app/router.js
Router.map(function() {
  this.route('login');
});

{{! app/templates/login.hbs }}
<form {{action 'authenticate' on='submit'}}>
  <label for="username">Login</label>
  {{input id='username' placeholder='Enter Login' value=username}}
  <label for="password">Password</label>
  {{input id='password' placeholder='Enter Password' type='password' value=password}}
  <button type="submit">Login</button>
  {{#if errorMessage}}
    <p>{{errorMessage}}</p>
  {{/if}}
</form>

// app/controllers/login.js
import Controller from '@ember/controller';
import { action } from "@ember/object";
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
 
export default class LoginController extends Controller {
  @service session;
 
  @action authenticate(event) {
    const { target } = event;
    let identification = target.querySelector('#identification').value;
    let password = target.querySelector('#password').value;
    event.preventDefault();
    this.session.authenticate('authenticator:pouch', identification, password).then(() => {
      this.setProperties({identification: '', password: ''});
    }).catch((reason) => {
      this.errorMessage = reason.message || reason;
    });
  }
}

Pouch Authenticator

Include

// config/environment.js
ENV.authAdapter = 'application';

Setup the pouch authenticator

// app/authenticators/pouchjs
import Pouch from 'ember-simple-auth-pouch/authenticators/pouch';
 
export default class PouchAuthenticator extends Pouch {
  getDb() {
    let pouchAdapter = this.store.adapterFor('application');//getOwner(this).lookup(`adapter:${pouchAdapterName}`);
    return pouchAdapter.remoteDb;
  }
}

Authenticated routes

// app/routes/secret.js
import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
import AuthenticatedRouteMixin from 'ember-simple-auth/mixins/authenticated-route-mixin';
 
export default class SecretRoute extends Route.extend(AuthenticatedRouteMixin) {
  // do your secret model setup here
}

Using Session service

Invalidate session when logged out remote:

// app/adapters/application.js
import config from '../config/environment';
import { assert } from '@ember/debug';
import { isEmpty } from '@ember/utils';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
import { Adapter } from 'ember-pouch';
import PouchDB from 'ember-pouch/pouchdb';
import auth from 'pouchdb-authentication';
 
PouchDB.plugin(auth);
 
export default class ApplicationAdapter extends Adapter {
  @service session;
  @service cloudState;
  @service refreshIndicator;
 
  constructor() {
    super(...arguments);
 
    const localDb = config.local_couch || 'blogger';
 
    assert('local_couch must be set', !isEmpty(localDb));
 
    const db = new PouchDB(localDb);
    this.db = db;
 
    // If we have specified a remote CouchDB instance, then replicate our local database to it
    if ( config.remote_couch ) {
      const remoteDb = new PouchDB(config.remote_couch, {
        fetch: function (url, opts) {
          opts.credentials = 'include';
          return PouchDB.fetch(url, opts);
        }
      });
 
      const replicationOptions = {
        live: true,
        retry: true
      };
 
      db.replicate.from(remoteDb, replicationOptions).on('paused', (err) => {
        this.cloudState.setPull(!err);
      });
 
      db.replicate.to(remoteDb, replicationOptions).on('denied', (err) => {
        if (!err.id.startsWith('_design/')) {
          //there was an error pushing, probably logged out outside of this app (couch/cloudant dashboard)
          this.session.invalidate();//this cancels the replication
 
          throw({message: "Replication failed. Check login?"});//prevent doc from being marked replicated
        }
      }).on('paused',(err) => {
        this.cloudState.setPush(!err);
      }).on('error',() => {
        this.session.invalidate();//mark error by loggin out
      });
 
      this.remoteDb = remoteDb;
    }
 
    return this;
  },
 
  unloadedDocumentChanged: function(obj) {
    this.refreshIndicator.kickSpin();
 
    let store = this.store;
    let recordTypeName = this.getRecordTypeName(store.modelFor(obj.type));
    this.db.rel.find(recordTypeName, obj.id).then(function(doc) {
      store.pushPayload(recordTypeName, doc);
    });
  }
});

Sample app

Tom Dale's blog example using Ember CLI and ember-simple-auth-pouch: broerse/ember-cli-blog

Credits

And of course thanks to all our wonderful contributors, here! and especially @mattmarcum for creating this addon.

Changelog

• 0.2.0 - Switch to import 'pouchdb-authentication' in App
• 0.1.0 - Release v0.1.0
• 0.1.0-beta.7 - no .db, but use getDb() everywhere
• 0.1.0-beta.6 - use getDb()
• 0.1.0-beta.5 - use ember-pouch 5.0.0-beta.2
• 0.1.0-beta.4 - use response when restoring session
• 0.1.0-beta.3 - Add peerDependencies
• 0.1.0-beta.2 - Switch to ember-cli 2.7.0
• 0.1.0-beta.1 - First Beta release