Integrating social login with user table

Sometimes while performing social login with Hasura, you would want to store the information returned by the login provider in the database to give the user some form of personalized experience. Let’s a take an example to see how this can be done to store the user’s access token so that you can use it to fetch their friends list or other information from facebook.

To do this:

  1. Create a new table, let’s call it user_details with the following columns to it, user_id of type INTEGER and access_token of type TEXT. Let user_id be the primary key as theyre unique for each user.
  2. Add user permissions to this table. The user_id field can be used to define ownership of rows in a table. ie: limit users to fetch/edit their own data only. See permissions for more details.
  3. Once you complete social login with Hasura, make an insert data query into the user_details table like so:
POST data.<cluster-name>.hasura-app.io/v1/query HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <user-auth-token>

{
    "type":"insert",
    "args":{
        "table":"user_details",
        "objects":[
            {"user_id":"<user-id>", "access_token": "<facebook-access-token>"},
        ]
    }
}

Now, whenever you want the user`s facebook access_token, you can make a select query to fetch the data:

POST data.<cluster-name>.hasura-app.io/v1/query HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <user-auth-token>

{
    "type":"select",
    "args":{
        "table":"user_details",
        "columns": ["access_token"]
    }
}

You can extend this pattern to storing any custom information you want about the user that you get from the social login or want to store otherwise, like their profile picture, likes, dislikes, friends list etc.

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