Node-jsonwebtoken: "expiresIn" doesn't work with string or number

[salali]

Getting the error

"expiresIn" should be a number of seconds or string representing a timespan eg: "1d", "20h", 60

I looked at where the error was being thrown in index.js line 86:

payload.exp = timespan(options.expiresIn);

I stepped through the timespan function and everything looks good there if I pass in either string or number. However the function always returns undefined?

[salali]

I should have read the documentation better:

payload could be an object literal, buffer or string. Please note that exp is only set if the payload is an object literal.

I was sending in a string.

Closing as non-issue.

[jgentes]

After updating to 5.5, I started seeing this error, whereas I wasn't seeing it before.

I am also passing a string in rather than an object literal, so I went ahead and removed the expiration since it's not being used and it cleared the error up.

However, this error message is incorrect - the format of "expiresIn" was correct, so this is an open bug in my opinion.

[jgentes]

Please re-open

[jfromaniello]

Notice that it will be silently ignored now when the payload doesn't support expiration. I plan to fail explicitly in the next major version.

[MeRahulAhire]

Out of nowhere I'm facing exact same issue. First it was working fine and now its giving me this error
invalid expiresIn option for string payload

const accessToken = jwt.sign(phone, JWT_AUTH_TOKEN, { expiresIn: '30s' });
const refreshToken = jwt.sign(phone, JWT_REFRESH_TOKEN, { expiresIn: '1y' });