feat(website): add GET /users/me endpoint for authenticated user lookup - #1308
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Returns the calling user's PublicUser (id + name), resolved from whichever credential the proxy injected as ?userId. Works with both session cookies and API keys since the proxy handles auth before forwarding. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without this, /api/users/me fell through to the dynamic [id].ts route which uses proxyToBackendNoAuth — no userId would be injected and the backend would return 400 (missing required param). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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From the backend perspective this is a little bit stupid ... Should this be a frontend only thing? |
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Pull request overview
Adds a “current user” lookup endpoint that can be called via the frontend /api proxy, enabling API-key authenticated clients (e.g., a seeder) to discover their own internal user ID and then fetch user-scoped resources like collections.
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- Added a new frontend proxy route
GET /api/users/meand a client helperBackendService.getMe(). - Added a backend endpoint
GET /users/methat returns thePublicUserfor the injecteduserIdquery parameter. - Added backend controller tests covering the new endpoint (success + 404).
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| File | Description |
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| website/src/pages/api/users/me.ts | Adds /api/users/me route proxying authenticated requests to the backend. |
| website/src/backendApi/backendService.ts | Adds getMe() helper for calling the new endpoint from the frontend client code. |
| backend/src/main/kotlin/org/genspectrum/dashboardsbackend/controller/UsersController.kt | Adds GET /users/me endpoint returning PublicUser. |
| backend/src/test/kotlin/org/genspectrum/dashboardsbackend/controller/UsersControllerTest.kt | Adds tests for GET /users/me success and not-found cases. |
| backend/src/test/kotlin/org/genspectrum/dashboardsbackend/controller/UsersClient.kt | Adds test client helpers to call GET /users/me. |
The backend endpoint was redundant — /users/{id} already returns the
same PublicUser shape. The frontend me.ts route now resolves the caller
from context.locals.gsUserId (set by authMiddleware for both session
cookies and API keys) and fetches /users/{id} on the backend directly.
No backend changes required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Let's change the PR title to feat(website) and add an e2e (Playwright) test for the new endpoint?
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| test('GET /api/users/me returns user data when authenticated', async ({ authenticatedPage }) => { | ||
| const response = await authenticatedPage.request.get('/api/users/me'); | ||
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| expect(response.status()).toBe(200); | ||
| const body = (await response.json()) as { id: number; name: string }; | ||
| expect(typeof body.id).toBe('number'); | ||
| expect(body.name).toBe('e2e-test'); | ||
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| try { | ||
| const response = await fetch(new URL(`/users/${userId}`, getBackendHost())); | ||
| return new Response(response.body, { | ||
| status: response.status, | ||
| headers: response.headers, | ||
| }); | ||
| } catch (error) { |
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Summary
Adds a new
/api/users/meendpoint.I want to use this, so the seeder can - based on the given API key - find out its own user ID. It can then use this to fetch its own collections.
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