Apollo 2.0.0 Graphql cookie session - graphql

Question

Can someone help me on this, My setup was as follows prior to Apollo 2.0, I had a server.js in which i used express and graphql-server-express
I had a http only cookie session, when a user logs in I set the jwt token as a cookie and it is set in browser as http only.
On subsequent request I validate the cookie that the browser passes back. It was all working fine and I could access
the token from req.session.token in any other resolver and validate the jwt token saved in the cookie session.
server.js
import express from 'express';
import { graphqlExpress, graphiqlExpress } from 'graphql-server-express';
import { ApolloEngine } from 'apollo-engine';
import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import cors from 'cors';
import cookieSession from 'cookie-session';
import schema from './schema/';
​
const server = express();
​
server.use(
cookieSession({
name: 'session',
keys: 'k1,k2',
maxAge: 30 * 60 * 1000,
domain: '.mydomain.com',
path: '/',
}),
);
​
const corsOptions = {
origin: 'http://local.mydomain.com:3000',
credentials: true,
methods: ['GET', 'PUT', 'POST', 'OPTIONS'],
};
​
server.use(cors(corsOptions));
​
server.use(
'/graphql',
bodyParser.json(),
graphqlExpress(req => ({
schema,
tracing: true,
context: { req },
})),
);
​
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
server.use('/graphiql',graphiqlExpress({endpointURL: '/graphql'}));
}
​
const engine = new ApolloEngine({
apiKey: engineConfig.apiKey,
});
​
engine.listen(
{
port: 3000,
graphqlPaths: ['/graphql'],
expressApp: server,
},
() => {console.log('GraphiQL is now running');},
);
authenticateResolver.js
const authenticateResolver = {
Query: {
authenticate: async (root, args, context) => {
const { req } = context;
​
const auth = `Basic ${Buffer.from(`${args.username}:${args.password}`).toString('base64')}`;
​
const axiosResponse = await axios.post("localhot:8080/login, 'true',
{
headers: {
Authorization: auth,
},
});
​
if (axiosResponse.status === 200 && axiosResponse.data.token) {
req.session.token = axiosResponse.data.token;
}
return {
status: 200,
};
},
But when I upgraded to Apollo 2.0 my server.js code changed, authenticateResolver was as is.
I am now unable to access req.session.token in any subsequent requests since the cookie session is not getting set.
When I open Developer tools in chrome I cannot see the cookie being set when Authentication is called.
What am I doing wrong here ?
server.js # After Apollo 2.0 upgrade
​
import express from 'express';
import { ApolloServer, gql } from 'apollo-server-express';
import cors from 'cors';
import cookieSession from 'cookie-session';
import { mergedTypes, resolvers } from './schema/';
​
const server = express();
​
server.use(
cookieSession({
name: 'session',
keys: 'k1,k2',
maxAge: 30 * 60 * 1000,
domain: '.mydomain.com',
path: '/',
}),
);
​
const corsOptions = {
origin: 'http://local.mydomain.com:3000',
credentials: true,
methods: ['GET', 'PUT', 'POST', 'OPTIONS'],
};
​
server.use(cors(corsOptions));
​
server.listen({ port: 3000 }, () => {
console.log('Server ready');
console.log('Try your health check at: .well-known/apollo/app-health');
});
​
const apollo = new ApolloServer({
typeDefs: gql`
${mergedTypes}
`,
resolvers,
engine: false,
context: ({ req }) => ({ req }),
});
​
apollo.applyMiddleware({
server
});

Answer 1

Yes, If you look at the graphql playground there is a settings option if you click on that you can observe few settings, one of them being
"request.credentials": "omit" just change it to
"request.credentials": "include" and save settings and it should now work.
My code looks as follows as well:
const app = express()
app.use(
cookieSession({
name: 'session',
keys: corsConfig.cookieSecret.split(','),
maxAge: 60 * 60 * 1000,
domain: corsConfig.cookieDomain,
path: '/',
})
)
const corsOptions = {
origin: corsConfig.corsWhitelist.split(','),
credentials: true,
methods: ['GET', 'PUT', 'POST', 'OPTIONS'],
}
app.use(cors(corsOptions))
const apollo = new ApolloServer({
typeDefs: gql`
${mergedTypes}
`,
resolvers,
engine: false,
context: ({ req }) => ({ req }),
tracing: true,
debug: !process.env.PRODUCTION,
introspection: !process.env.PRODUCTION,
})
apollo.applyMiddleware({
app,
path: '/',
cors: corsOptions,
})
app.listen({ port: engineConfig.port }, () => {
console.log('🚀 - Server ready')
console.log('Try your health check at: .well-known/apollo/app-health')
})