Better Auth•3mo ago

accessing plugins in DB hooks

Just a question if it's possible or not to access plugins in the DB hooks. good example is creating an organisation when a user signs up? looked around the docs and couldn't find much

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nikatune•3mo ago

check api path from console when user create and create a database hook with that path

Ping•3mo ago

Yes you can.

hamishOP•3mo ago

Do you have an example? I have something like this,

databaseHooks: {
    user: {
      create: {
        after: async (user: User, ctx: GenericEndpointContext) => {
          try {
            const org = await organization().endpoints.createOrganization({
              body: {
                name: "test",
                slug: "test",
              },
              headers: ctx.headers,
            });
          } catch (e) {
            console.error("Failed to create org", e);
          }
          return Promise.resolve();
        },
      },
    },

databaseHooks: {
    user: {
      create: {
        after: async (user: User, ctx: GenericEndpointContext) => {
          try {
            const org = await organization().endpoints.createOrganization({
              body: {
                name: "test",
                slug: "test",
              },
              headers: ctx.headers,
            });
          } catch (e) {
            console.error("Failed to create org", e);
          }
          return Promise.resolve();
        },
      },
    },

Ping•3mo ago

why not just use auth.api.createOrganization?

hamishOP•3mo ago

because auth isn't instantiated yet.. It's like const config = { // better auth config here } export const auth = betterAuth(config);

Ping•3mo ago

You're going to need to move the databaseHook part of your config straight into betterAuth , this way you can access auth

hamishOP•3mo ago

Such as?

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Ping•3mo ago

hamishOP•3mo ago

I may be missing something, but the plugin isn't registered yet?

Ping•3mo ago

Mimicked your setup, everything works for me. Could it be the type issues regarding the after function causing it?

hamishOP•3mo ago

Yeah I can't access it inside the hook but can access it when its called after const auth = betterAuth(); auth.api.createOrganization // works

Ping•3mo ago

Not sure why you're having this issue, but this flow is very common. I often see people create orgs right in the DB hooks. 🤔

hamishOP•2mo ago

I wonder if it's my tsconfig, I'm using t3-turbo as the base of my project if that helps? How do we pass the headers? is there a way to infer the headers from inside the after function to pass them on?

Ping•2mo ago

No, however some apis such as createOrganization can be ran without headers as long as you provide a userID

hamishOP•2mo ago

Yeah that makes sense and is working now

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