meteor__authdemo/packages/accounts-fake

Accounts-fake

This is a fake accounts package for Meteor 1.2.

It implements the APIs needed to build a real accounts package, but uses a basic user/action pair, with this truth table, trying to log in as user "foo".

"foo" exists ?	action	result
true	true	logged-in as "foo"
true	false	login failure
false	true	user "foo" created, and logged-in as "foo"
false	false	login failure

Logging in and out

This is performed client-side: invoke the Meteor standard login process using the fake login service:

// To successfully log in, possibly creating the "foo" account.
Meteor.loginWithFake("foo", true, callback);

// To fail at logging in.
Meteor.loginWithFake("foo", false, callback);

// To logout.
Meteor.logout();

Configuring the package

This package currently uses a simple configuration to demonstrate use of the accounts service configuration mechanism. It is made of two keys: public and secret. The truth table for the package is the following:

"public"	"secret"	package status
undefined	undefined	unconfigured
anything defined	not same as "public"	configuration error: invalid "secret"
anything defined	same as "public"	package configured

The package takes its configuration from Meteor.settings, exposing its public value and hiding its secret on the client side.

This means your settings.json file must look somehow like this:

{
  "fake": {
    "secret": "the secret, share you will"
  },
  "public": {
    "fake": {
      "public": "the secret, share you will"
    },
  },
}

And your application using the package must be called like this to use settings:

meteor --settings settings.json