Document the Accounts.addAutopublishFields function

chenroth · July 7, 2015, 1:05pm

I’ve just happened to stumble upon this function in

meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/accounts-facebook/facebook.js

Accounts.oauth.registerService('facebook');

if (Meteor.isClient) {
  const loginWithFacebook = function(options, callback) {
    // support a callback without options
    if (! callback && typeof options === "function") {
      callback = options;
      options = null;
    }

    var credentialRequestCompleteCallback = Accounts.oauth.credentialRequestCompleteHandler(callback);
    Facebook.requestCredential(options, credentialRequestCompleteCallback);
  };
  Accounts.registerClientLoginFunction('facebook', loginWithFacebook);
  Meteor.loginWithFacebook = function () {
    return Accounts.applyLoginFunction('facebook', arguments);
  };
} else {
  Accounts.addAutopublishFields({
    // publish all fields including access token, which can legitimately

This file has been truncated. show original

Had I known it existed, it would’ve saved me a massive headache and time

Is there any work planned on extending the documentation for such obscure, yet useful features?

ziedmahdi · November 9, 2018, 11:14pm

hey @chenroth,

I was wondering if you can help me with the Accounts.addAutopublishFields function.
In fact, I want to auto publish the roles field for logged in users, but my code doesn’t seem to work.

In server/main.js I have:

Accounts.addAutopublishFields({
    forLoggedInUser: ['roles'],
});

But when I log Meteor.user() on client side, I don’t get the roles field:

I would appreciate your help.

Thank you very much.