authenticate()

Authenticates the current connection with a JWT token.

Method Syntax
db.authenticate(token)

Arguments

Example usage

Note: the following example uses the ureq crate with the json feature to first send a request to the database’s /signup endpoint which returns a token. The reqwest crate and others can be used here instead.

Alternatively, you could use a command like curl -X POST -H "Accept: application/json" -d '{"ns":"test","db":"test","ac":"account","user":"info@surrealdb.com","pass":"123456"}' http://localhost:8000/signup, copy the returned token, and paste it into the .authenticate() method. As the DEFINE ACCESS method below shows, a token will remain valid by default for 15 minutes.

// Use the following statement to set up the access
//
// DEFINE ACCESS account ON DATABASE TYPE RECORD
// 	SIGNUP ( CREATE user SET email = $email, pass = crypto::argon2::generate($pass) )
// 	SIGNIN ( SELECT * FROM user WHERE email = $email AND crypto::argon2::compare(pass, $pass) )
// 	DURATION FOR TOKEN 15m, FOR SESSION 12h
// ;

// DEFINE TABLE cat SCHEMALESS
//     PERMISSIONS for select, update, delete, create
//     WHERE $auth.id;

use serde::Deserialize;
use std::fmt::Display;
use surrealdb::engine::remote::ws::Ws;
use surrealdb::Surreal;

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Response {
    token: String,
}

impl Display for Response {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "{}", self.token)
    }
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> surrealdb::Result<()> {
    let db = Surreal::new::<Ws>("127.0.0.1:8000").await?;
    let token = ureq::post("http://127.0.0.1:8000/signup")
        .set("Accept", "application/json")
        .send_json(ureq::json!({
            "ns": "test",
            "db": "test",
            "ac": "account",
            "email": "info@surrealdb.com",
            "pass": "123456"
        }))
        .unwrap()
        .into_json::<Response>()
        .unwrap()
        .to_string();

    // Not signed in, doesn't work
    dbg!(db.query("CREATE cat;").await?);
    db.authenticate(token).await?;
    // Now it works
    dbg!(db.query("CREATE cat;").await?);

    Ok(())
}

See also

• .authenticate() method on Docs.rs