node-neo4j + passport

[Alex Frieden]

Does anyone have any examples of integrating node-neo4j and passport.js together?  Currently having some trouble getting it working.  Thanks!

[Evan Lee]

Hey Alex,

I've worked with passport and node-neo4j. What sort of uses are you looking at? Any specific auth method for passport?

[Alex Frieden]

No, just trying to get a simple login to work in neo4j.  Do you have any examples I can follow?  Thanks

[Dave Kushner]

The authentication process is really no different with Neo4j than it is with any other database. Essentially the only difference will be how you serialize and deserialize the user. For the password validation process, refer to the Passport docs. The only thing that changes between the given example and your application is you would replace the User.findOne method with the corresponding node-neo4j method: db.getIndexedNode('Users', 'username', example, ...). Note that this example assumes you have indexed your "user" nodes by username, which I would highly suggest. 

[Evan Lee]

This is exactly correct.  Great description, Dave!