Better Auth•2mo ago

How to silently refresh session (triggering the session.before.create hooks)

When a user logs in, I check if they belong to any orgs, and set the activeOrganizationId in session.before.create, if they do. I also add member_id and member_role to the session, for quick access. But when they change active org, the hook doesn't seem to rerun. The activeorganizationId changes, but the other fields I've added don't. Can I manually create and set a new session silently, given that the user is already authenticated

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You're looking to use update hook instead in this case

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edwardrenton•2mo ago

Any thoughts/progress with this? Also looking to do something similar

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bekacru•2mo ago

You're looking to use update hook instead in this case

edwardrenton•2mo ago

Thank you

SkepticMysticOP•2mo ago

Makes sense, I'll give that a try

SkepticMysticOP•2mo ago

Sorry, I actually already tried this. It might just be a type issue, but the session arg in databaseHooks.session.update.before is Partial, whereas the one in the create.before hook isn't. So if I just do an identity function in the update.before hook, TS shouts:

          update: {
            before: async (session, ctx) => {
              console.log(session, "session.update.before");

              return { data: session };
            },
          },

          update: {
            before: async (session, ctx) => {
              console.log(session, "session.update.before");

              return { data: session };
            },
          },

It's not just a type error. The above logs: { activeOrganizationId: '6e762d55-c45c-493c-ae77-24d5fc914a34' } session.update.before So am I expected to fill in the rest of the session values? Can I get some help on this, the session.update.before hook appears to have different behaviour to the create version

LightTab2•2mo ago

Hey you should unmark it as solved if you still have the issue I am not following what's the problem and what's the expected outcome. Are you sure you should use before and not after hook here? Have you tried using both in tandem?

LightTab2•2mo ago

Also you can add additionalFields to session when configuring better auth

Options | Better Auth

Better Auth configuration options reference.

SkepticMysticOP•2mo ago

I wasn't sure how to do that When a user signs in, I grab the first org they're a member of, and set the orgId on the new session. I also set the memberId and memberRole for quick access. This happens in session.create.before The issue is that when a user changes their active org, the session.create.before hook doesn't run, makes sense. So I tried hooking into session.update.before to do the same thing, but the data available in the callback is different from the create.before hook There isn't enough data available to determine the user and member The only field available in the session.update.before callback is activeOrganizationId

LightTab2•2mo ago

Maybe if you add them as custom fields, they will be infered correctly in the update hook

SkepticMysticOP•2mo ago

Even so

        additionalFields: {
          member_id: {
            type: "string",
            input: false,
            returned: true,
            defaultValue: null,
          },
          member_role: {
            type: "string",
            input: false,
            returned: true,
            defaultValue: null,
          },
        },

        additionalFields: {
          member_id: {
            type: "string",
            input: false,
            returned: true,
            defaultValue: null,
          },
          member_role: {
            type: "string",
            input: false,
            returned: true,
            defaultValue: null,
          },
        },

session.update.before: 
{
  ctx: undefined,
  session: { activeOrganizationId: 'e14b5012-213a-41ea-bed9-908af20a89ad' },
}

session.update.before: 
{
  ctx: undefined,
  session: { activeOrganizationId: 'e14b5012-213a-41ea-bed9-908af20a89ad' },
}

ctx is undefined, and the only session field returned is active orgId

LightTab2•2mo ago

I can't get it to fire on user login at all, don't know why The type error can be mitigated with

return { data: session as Session & Record<string, unknown> };

return { data: session as Session & Record<string, unknown> };

SkepticMysticOP•2mo ago

It's not just a type error, the fields aren't there at runtime either. The only field available on session is activeOrgId

SkepticMysticOP•2mo ago

Github issue: https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/issues/4767

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The data in databaseHooks.session.update.before is limited compar...

Is this suited for github? Yes, this is suited for github To Reproduce Add the following databaseHooks: databaseHooks: { session: { create: { before: async (session, ctx) => { console.log(sessio...

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How to silently refresh session (triggering the session.before.create hooks)

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