Meteor setUserId on both client and server

help
1

Hi,
I’m trying to impersonate a user on my app (I looked at some packages but they weren’t what I needed).
I read on the Meteor documentation (http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/method_setUserId) that I can use the setUserId method to set the userId I want.
I tried that but it only work on the client side when I use Meteor.connection.setUserId(userId)
When I try to use it on the server (this.setUserId(userId)) I get an exception -

Object [object global] has no method ‘setUserId’

On the client side I used-

function impersonateUser(userId){
    smCtrl.call('impersonateUser', userId,  function(err,res){
        if (!err) {
            Meteor.connection.setUserId(userId);
        }
        else{
            alert(err);
        }
    });
}

And on the server side I used-

Meteor.methods({
‘impersonateUser’ : (userId)=>{
if (!Meteor.userId()) {
throw new Meteor.Error(‘impersonateUser.unauthorized’,
‘Cannot merge impersonate user if not connected’);
}
if(Meteor.users.find({_id: userId}, {limit: 1}).count() == 0){
throw new Meteor.Error(‘impersonateUser.userDoesntExist’,
‘Cannot impersonate user if not exist’);
}
this.setUserId(userId);
}
});

I need to set the user on both client and server side to get what I need.
Can anybody help me with that?

Thanks

2

Hey, you need to do this.setUserId(userId) inside of a meteor method. Where did you try to run it? Why don’t you show some code, that might help to help you.

3

Hi @tomsp,
I edited the post and added the code I’m using.
Thank you

4

ok, include a console.log(this) call in your method and see what kind of object this is. then, try defining the impersonateUser method without the fat-arrow function and run it again. anything?

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5

Hi @tomsp,
It was the fat-arrow function as you suggested - I changed it to regular function.
Thank you!

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6

Another question,
After I set the userId, can I get the previous userId (the one who’s impersonating the new user)?

7

You’d have to store it somewhere first before setting the userId

8

Is that the only way?
When I refresh the page the user goes back to the original user so I guess that Meteor saves the original user somewhere

9

try using:

Meteor.loginWithToken(localStorage[‘Meteor.loginToken’])

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@shaile thank you!
It worked