Having issues with integrating passport-local with restify

Question

My sample application is as follows

var util = require("util")
restify = require("restify"),
    q = require("q"),
    _ = require("lodash");

//Create Server
var server = restify.createServer({
    name: "TestAuth"
});
server.use(restify.queryParser());
server.use(restify.bodyParser());

//Initialize Passport
var passport = require("passport"),
    LocalStrategy = require("passport-local").Strategy;

server.use(passport.initialize());

passport.use(new LocalStrategy(
    function(username, password, done) {
       return done(null, "Test")
    }));

//Session setup

server.post("/login", function(req, res, next) {
    passport.authenticate("local", function(err, user, info) {
        console.log(util.format("%s is logged in!", user))

        res.send(200);
        return next();
    })(req, res, next);
});

server.listen(8080);

When I make the request /login?username=test&password=test it hits the authenticate callback but "user" is false. When I just use

server.post("/login", passport.authenticate("local");

I get a Bad Request response from restify.

Answer 1

This passport documentation page shows, in the "Custom Callback" section at the bottom, that, for the way you are using passport in your main snippet, the request method should be a 'get', not a 'post'. I copy here the code snippet from that page:

app.get('/login', function(req, res, next) {
  passport.authenticate('local', function(err, user, info) {
    if (err) { return next(err); }
    if (!user) { return res.redirect('/login'); }
    req.logIn(user, function(err) {
      if (err) { return next(err); }
      return res.redirect('/users/' + user.username);
    });
  })(req, res, next);
});

That page has other examples of how passport can be used, including the "local" variant that you attempted.