How to redirect in sails after login with sails-permissions

Question

I've just started using sails and am trying to implement authentication. I installed everything like adviced, then created a simple login form with jade:

form(action="/auth/local", method="post")
     div
        input(name="identifier" type="text")
     div
        input(name="password" type="password")
     div
        input(type="submit")

This logs authentication successful and forwards me to the page, returning

{
  "createdBy": 1,
  "owner": 1,
  "username": "admin",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "id": 1,
  "createdAt": "2015-09-25T18:14:20.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2015-09-25T18:39:30.000Z",
  "gravatarUrl": "https://gravatar.com/avatar/e64c7d89f26bd1972efa854d13d7dd61"
}

Now I want to redirect the newly logged in user to any page, so I tried to change the form's action to

/auth/local/login

which redirects to /login, but logs

warn: Error: Invalid action

serverside.

In my config/routes file I have a route like this:

"/login" : {
    view:"login"
}

What is the correct way to setup redirection in sails after login?

Answer 1

With /auth/local/login, it tries to call login action for passport local strategy. But as you can see from source local strategy have three actions:

register: This method creates a new user from a specified email, username and password and assign the newly created user a local Passport.

connect : This function can be used to assign a local Passport to a user who doens't have one already. This would be the case if the user registered using a third-party service and therefore never set a password.

disconnect: Disconnect a passport from a user

For other actions it'll throw Invalid action error.

The right way to redirect after successful login is to use next query parameter:

/auth/local?next=login