Routing-controllers: inject-session-object

[ghost]

Hi,
I don't understand how to inject sessions
https://github.com/pleerock/routing-controllers#inject-session-object

I've installed express-session.

import { Session } from "routing-controllers";
//import * from "express-session";
var session = require('express-session');

@Post("/login/")
loginUser(@Session() session: Express.Session, @Body() user: User) {
}

How to find such a "Express.Session" type ? How and what to import ?

[pleerock]

adding @19majkel94

[MichalLytek]

How to find such a "Express.Session" type ? How and what to import ?

npm i -s @types/express-session

Express is a global namespace so no imports are needed.

You may also need interface merging to declare properties that you want to store in session:

declare namespace Express {
    export interface Session {
        user: any;
    }
}

Also, you need to configure the express-session middleware - this might help.

[ghost]

Thank you very much @19majkel94, it works fine!
I also need to use/inject in my controllers:

• express-translate (https://github.com/uber/express-translate)
• passport auth (http://passportjs.org/docs)
  It would be great to have a short explanation, to do that ;-)
  Whatever, thank you very much for your job !

[MichalLytek]

Just use the @Req() decorator to inject the whole Request object like in normal express handler. Or write custom decorator that will extract and inject that for you 😉

[pleerock]

I think this can be closed