[Catalyst] Re: Using htpasswd file : New Issue

[Tomas Doran]

On 7 May 2011, at 14:29, Rohan M wrote:

> Yes. Now the Authentication part is working.
>
> I'm running into one more issue. Now, I'm able to get username from  
> the htpasswd file. But my user information like Name, Address is  
> stored in the database.
>
> Can I add this information (name, address coming from db) in the  
> user object generated from Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Htpasswd ?
>
> Does anyone has idea how to go about this?


http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst-Authentication-Store-Htpasswd-1.003/lib/Catalyst/Authentication/Store/Htpasswd.pm#user_class

I.e. subclass Catalyst::Authentication::Store::Htpasswd::User as  
MyApp::User, change that config setting, and you can now put extra  
code into your user class...

This gets your part way, but you don't have $c here, so your user  
class can't lookup the extra info in the app..

The solution to that is to also subclass the Store itself, and wrap /  
use an around method modifier on the 'find_user' method - something  
like (in pseudocode):

around find_user => sub {
     my ($orig, $self, $authinfo, $c, @args) = @_;
     my $user = $self->$orig($authinfo, $c, @args);
     $user->extra_field($c->model('DB::User')->find({ username =>  
$user->id })->first->extra_field;
     return $user;
};

Sane error handling (e.g. user does not exist, or user in the htpasswd  
file, but not the DB) is left as an exercise for the reader.

Cheers
t0m