How to runDB in AuthPlugin?

[jsch...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble and no idea how to use persistent (with runDB?) in my custom AuthPlugin.

Here is a sample code which fails with a compile error:

authEmailLink :: YesodAuth m => AuthPlugin m
authEmailLink =
  AuthPlugin "email-link" dispatch login
  where
    dispatch :: Text -> [Text] -> AuthHandler m TypedContent
    dispatch "GET" [loginToken] = do
      muser <- liftHandler . runDB $ selectFirst [UserLoginToken ==. Just loginToken] []

      …

yields:

    • Could not deduce: BaseBackend (YesodPersistBackend m1)
                        ~ Database.Persist.SqlBackend.Internal.SqlBackend
        arising from a use of ‘selectFirst’
      from the context: MonadAuthHandler m1 m2
        bound by the type signature for:
                   dispatch :: Text -> [Text] -> AuthHandler m1 TypedContent

I guess I have to fix the class type header, maybe something with YesodPersist or YesodAuthPersist or YesodPersistBackend but I don't get it.

I'd be grateful for any help!

Jakob

[Michael Snoyman]

There are two different things I can see here that may be helpful:

1. You're using a type variable `m` in both the top level signature for `authEmailLink` and `dispatch`. _However_, because of how scoping rules work, they are _different_ type variables for the compiler. That's why you get the message containing `m1` instead of `m1`. I'd fix that by turning on the `ScopedTypeVariables` language pragma and putting a `forall m.` before the `YesodAuth` constraint.

2. You then likely need to further constrain that `m` to indicate that the `m` provides the ability to make SQL requests. Hopefully the error messages will be clearer though after you implement (1).

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[jsch...@gmail.com]

Thanks Michael. I enabled ScopedTypeVariables in that module (Yesod.Auth.Dummy and Yesod.Auth.Email have this as well). And I changed the first line to:

authEmailLink :: forall m. YesodAuth m => AuthPlugin m

However, the error message is the same except that now `m1` has changed to `m`.

I've looked at the source of Yesod.Auth.HashDB. They define the type constraints using a "type" (using GHC extension ConstraintKinds) with a lot of constraints:

type HashDBPersist master user =

    ( YesodAuthPersist master
    , PersistUnique (YesodPersistBackend master)
    , AuthEntity master ~ user
#if MIN_VERSION_persistent(2,5,0)
    , PersistEntityBackend user ~ BaseBackend (YesodPersistBackend master)
#else
    , PersistEntityBackend user ~ YesodPersistBackend master
#endif
    , HashDBUser user
    , PersistEntity user
    )

I don't think that I need most of these. But even if I use all except `HashDBUser`, I still get the same error message :-/

[Michael Snoyman]

I'm not sure what would lead to that behavior, sorry.

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[jsch...@gmail.com]

Thank you anyway! It will probably take me a few more hours trial and error but it must be possible... Yesod.Auth.HashDB did it. I'll post the solution when I find it.