Is there a way to authenticate programaticaly I m using the

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Is there a way to authenticate programaticaly I m using the Email Password and Session recipe I want to authenticate on https studio apollographql com so that i can have a playground for my developers My initial thoughts were to use `EmailPassword signIn` and `Session createSession` to save valid auth tokens as cookies on the graphql playground The idea was to use a login mutation which sets the cookies but i cant seem to get it to work programatically

Kharann · Answer

I ve been thinking of just enabling JWT The important part is just to get Apollo studio to work I could enable Apollo Playground so that it s on the same domain but playground will be deprecated and therefore using apollo studio would be preferable

nkshah2 · Answer

You could use a JWT to authenticate users on Apollo Studio https supertokens com docs emailpassword common customizations sessions with jwt about

Kharann · Answer

Yeah I think i will go for the JWT then

Kharann · Answer

its juts that i saw that apollo studio had support for setting cookies

nkshah2 · Answer

What part did not work for you

nkshah2 · Answer

Were you getting any specific errors

Kharann · Answer

I did get the user from the signIn method

Kharann · Answer

but when trying to create a new session I would get an error

Kharann · Answer

The signIn method worked well and i got a user out from it

Kharann · Answer

But when creating a session and passing in the res object it wouldn t work

Kharann · Answer

This is the settings in apollo studio which lead me to attempt session authentication in apollo studio haha After setting the correct settings it did lead me down a rabbithole

nkshah2 · Answer

= If you have please follow this trouble shooting guide and post your output here https supertokens com docs emailpassword troubleshooting how to troubleshoot

nkshah2 · Answer

You can refer to this guide for graphql https supertokens com docs emailpassword graphql integration backend setup

Kharann · Answer

yes I did set it up correctly and I do get correct output when making a graphql request from the frontend

Kharann · Answer

It s just when using an apollostudio

Kharann · Answer

Did I use createSession correct I was unsure how to create sessions programatically and attach them to cookies

nkshah2 · Answer

So if you already called signIn signUp from SuperTokens you dont need to call createSession yourself

Kharann · Answer

Which methods would I need to use to attach the new session to the response request

Kharann · Answer

I m looking through the recipe session documentation right now

nkshah2 · Answer

You can use `supertokens website` on the frontend to help with this It uses network interception and does session management for you

Kharann · Answer

Hmm that would be hard to implement in apollo studio

Kharann · Answer

Well might as well go for JWT then

Kharann · Answer

thanks for the help

Kharann · Answer

it was worth the attempt

nkshah2 · Answer

So the backend SDK that you are using already sets the cookies

nkshah2 · Answer

The browser should handle sending them

Kharann · Answer

aaah that makes sense

Kharann · Answer

It seems difficult to set them in an external grahql playground

Kharann · Answer

so JWt is probably the easiest solution

nkshah2 · Answer

If you are successfully creating a session on Apollo Studio using SuperTokens then the part of sending cookies when making network requests should already be working