NextAuth on server side component

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Broad-snouted Caiman posted this in #help-forum

Broad-snouted CaimanOP

2023-11-03T14:14:34.000Z

Hello guys, I have an API route /posts that returns all the posts of an user (im using nextauth for authentication & authorization). So, in the posts route i call await getServerSession(authOptions) to find out which user is sending the request. When i send GET request from clientside to /posts, it works fine. but when I fetch it from a serverside component, getServerSession(authOptions) returns null. Why is that?

Also, when i call await getServerSession(authOptions) directly in a server side component it works fine.

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Blue horntail woodwasp

2023-11-03T15:54:45.000Z

what you want to get from session?

you can directly get the user data from token with getToken() from next-auth/jwt.

hope it helps

Broad-snouted CaimanOP

2023-11-03T16:38:28.000Z

i use it like this :

export async function getSession() {
  return await getServerSession(authOptions);
}

// this function is used to get the current user from the database
export const getCurrentUser = async () => {
  try {
    // get the current session
    const session = await getSession();

    // if there is no session, return null
    if (!session?.user?.email) {
      return null;
    }

    // find the user in the database
    const currentUser = await prisma.user.findUnique({
      where: {
        email: session.user.email as string,
      },
    });

    // if there is no user, return null
    if (!currentUser) {
      return null;
    }

    //  return the user
    return {
      ...currentUser,
      createdAt: currentUser.createdAt.toISOString(),
      updatedAt: currentUser.updatedAt.toISOString(),
    };
  } catch (error: any) {
    return null;
  }
};

Blue horntail woodwasp

2023-11-04T10:18:09.000Z

as far as I know, getServerSession only works in Client Side, cmiiw