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Axios create/recreate cookie session in node.js enviroment
/* Basic example of saving cookie using axios in node.js and session's recreation after expiration.
* We have to getting/saving cookie manually because WithCredential axios param use XHR and doesn't work in node.js
* Also, this example supports parallel request and send only one create session request.
* */
const BASE_URL = "https://google.com";
// Init instance of axios which works with BASE_URL
const axiosInstance = axios.create({ baseURL: BASE_URL });
const createSession = async () => {
console.log("create session");
const authParams = {
username: "username",
password: "password"
};
const resp = await axios.post(BASE_URL, authParams);
const [cookie] = resp.headers["set-cookie"]; // getting cookie from request
axiosInstance.defaults.headers.Cookie = cookie; // attaching cookie to axiosInstance for future requests
return cookie; // return Promise<cookie> because func is async
};
let isGetActiveSessionRequest = false;
let requestQueue = [];
const callRequestsFromQueue = cookie => {
requestQueue.forEach(sub => sub(cookie));
};
const addRequestToQueue = sub => {
requestQueue.push(sub);
};
const clearQueue = () => {
requestQueue = [];
};
// registering axios interceptor which handle response's errors
axiosInstance.interceptors.response.use(null, error => {
console.error(error.message); //logging here
const { response = {}, config: sourceConfig } = error;
// checking if request failed cause Unauthorized
if (response.status === 401) {
// if this request is first we set isGetActiveSessionRequest flag to true and run createSession
if (!isGetActiveSessionRequest) {
isGetActiveSessionRequest = true;
createSession().then(cookie => {
// when createSession resolve with cookie value we run all request from queue with new cookie
isGetActiveSessionRequest = false;
callRequestsFromQueue(cookie);
clearQueue(); // and clean queue
}).catch(e => {
isGetActiveSessionRequest = false; // Very important!
console.error('Create session error %s', e.message);
clearQueue();
});
}
// and while isGetActiveSessionRequest equal true we create and return new promise
const retryRequest = new Promise(resolve => {
// we push new function to queue
addRequestToQueue(cookie => {
// function takes one param 'cookie'
console.log("Retry with new session context %s request to %s", sourceConfig.method, sourceConfig.url);
sourceConfig.headers.Cookie = cookie; // setting cookie to header
resolve(axios(sourceConfig)); // and resolve promise with axios request by old config with cookie
// we resolve exactly axios request - NOT axiosInstance's request because it could call recursion
});
});
return retryRequest;
} else {
// if error is not related with Unauthorized we just reject promise
return Promise.reject(error);
}
});
@Mengchen-He
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Have been stuck for 3h and your code works like a charm, thank you so much

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mscw commented Jan 11, 2022

It works! Thank you so much.

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