sendUserEmailVerification usage

lewishak · October 16, 2024, 11:57am

I will share a solution for enabling email verification for specific users only.
I hope this will be helpful to developers in a similar situation as mine.

I found a hint on GitHub:

github.com

parse-community/parse-server/blob/alpha/src/Controllers/UserController.js#L163


      
          }
          
          async sendVerificationEmail(user, req) {
            if (!this.shouldVerifyEmails) {
              return;
            }
            const token = encodeURIComponent(user._email_verify_token);
            // We may need to fetch the user in case of update email; only use the `fetchedUser`
            // from this point onwards; do not use the `user` as it may not contain all fields.
            const fetchedUser = await this.getUserIfNeeded(user);
            let shouldSendEmail = this.config.sendUserEmailVerification;
            if (typeof shouldSendEmail === 'function') {
              const response = await Promise.resolve(
                this.config.sendUserEmailVerification({
                  user: Parse.Object.fromJSON({ className: '_User', ...fetchedUser }),
                  master: req.auth?.isMaster,
                })
              );
              shouldSendEmail = !!response;
            }
            if (!shouldSendEmail) {

// ParseServer config
const config = {
  ...
  verifyUserEmails: true,
  sendUserEmailVerification: (req) => {
    // console.log(req)
    const role = req.user.get('role'); // my custom user field
    const emailVerified = req.user.get('emailVerified');

    if(role !== 'expert' || emailVerified){
      return false;
    }

    return true;
  },
  ...

const server = new ParseServer(config);

Manuel · October 16, 2024, 12:05pm

Did you try whether password reset, manually changing email via dashboard, and auth login (e.g. Facebook) still work with that conditional verification? You’d want to observe what happens to the email verified flag, and to the actual action that is being taken (e.g. password reset). There may be interdependencies here.