Express resources with authentication middleware?

Question

Passport.js offers great authentication for node.js and Express including a middleware solution:

ensureAuthenticated = function(req, res, next) {
  if (req.isAuthenticated()) {
    return next();
  }
  return res.redirect("/login");
};

How can I use this middleware in the express-resource module? Unfortunately,

app.resource('users', ensureAuthenticated, require('./resources/users'));

doesn't work.

Answer 1

I know this is a little too late, and the original post was answered, however, I was looking for the same answer and found a solution I thought others might want to know.

Just make sure ensureAuthenticated is called from passport.

    app.resource('users', passport.ensureAuthenticated, require('./resources/users'));

It is found here: https://gist.github.com/1941301

Answer 2

Workaround. Ensure authentication on all requests and ignore requests going to /auth and /auth/callback.

app.all('*', function(req, res, next) {
  if (/^\/auth/g.test(req.url)) {
    return next();
  } else if (req.isAuthenticated()) {
    return next();
  } else {
    return next(new Error(401));
  }
});