UPDATE THE SESSION FROM THE CLIENT SIDE

[Danztee]

Description 📓

I am working on a project, in the settings page i can update the name, username e.t.c after updating, it updates in the database but the session won't change until i log out and log in back then the new data from the database will now be updated. we need a way to update the session from the client when updates like this happen. the database is sending me the updated data after successful update. so we need a way to pass the updated data to the session from the client so that we did not need to log out and login again for the changes to be made

How to reproduce ☕️

no one for now

Contributing 🙌🏽

Yes, I am willing to help implement this feature in a PR

[magicspon]

it's a bit of hack, but this seems to do the job:

function useReloadSession() {
  const reloadSession = () => {
    const event = new Event('visibilitychange')
    document.dispatchEvent(event)
  }

  return reloadSession
}

then once you've updated your user data:

const reloadSession = useReloadSession()

... 
onSuccess = () => reloadSession()

[Danztee]

it's a bit of hack, but this seems to do the job:

function useReloadSession() {
  const reloadSession = () => {
    const event = new Event('visibilitychange')
    document.dispatchEvent(event)
  }

  return reloadSession
}

then once you've updated your user data:

const reloadSession = useReloadSession()

... 
onSuccess = () => reloadSession()

where will i put all these code? which file?

[magicspon]

ignore the code...

after you update your username/name/whatever

call this:

const event = new Event('visibilitychange')
document.dispatchEvent(event)

[Danztee]

my problem is dat how can i pass the newly updated user data to the session. if i log out and log in back, it gets the newly updated data from d backend that is normal but how can i pass the new data to the session without logging out and logging in...

that code u provided just reload the session not update d session

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THIS IS MY ISSUE
i updated my username in d frontend and it has been updated in the DB and the API sent a response with the newly updated data. so i want to pass the new updated data to the session. of course, if i log out and log in, it'll get the new data. but how can i pass the new data to the session without logging out and logging in after updating in the frontend

[magicspon]

this is where i got the code snippet from:
#596 (comment)

[balazsorban44]

See the related discussion here: #3941 Might have some good pointers.

Unfortunately, the discussion got flooded by unrelated comments and I stopped iterating on the feature, but we could revisit and add something in the future.

It would be nice to have a built-in solution, but updating the session makes little sense for JWT sessions for example, so we might need to think about the right API.