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Implementing “Change Password” API in Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend, users can change the password for their account in the ‘Settings’ section. Changing one’s password will require the previous password of the same account which ensures the security. To implement change in password API, we created a REST endpoint here since the password cannot be included in the user model and thereby exposed to the client.

There is also a check on the server side of the old password. Thus, if the old password entered matches the one on the server, the post is successful and the server saves the new password. We achieve this as follows:

We have a change password form located at ‘settings/change-password’, which contains three input fields for old password, new password and confirm new password.

On submitting the form, we pass the action from the component to the controller.

Components consist of two parts: a template written in Handlebars, and a source file written in JavaScript that defines the component’s behavior.

Controllers behave like a specialized type of Component that is rendered by the router when entering a Route.

We could have handled this action in component itself. But, Ember JS’ main principle is DDAU i.e data down actions up. That is the main reason why we handle the action in out controller.

submit() {
      this.onValid(() => {
      this.sendAction('changePassword', this.getProperties('passwordCurrent', 'passwordNew'));
      });
}

Thus, we handle the action in our controller as follows:

 changePassword(passwordData) {
      this.set('isLoading', true);
      let payload = {
        'data': {
          'old-password' : passwordData.passwordCurrent,
          'new-password' : passwordData.passwordNew
        }
      };
      this.get('loader')
        .post('/auth/change-password', payload)
        .then(() => {
          this.get('notify').success(this.l10n.t('Password updated successfully'));
        })
        .catch(error => {
          if (error.error) {
            this.get('notify').error(this.l10n.t(error.error));
          } else {
            this.get('notify').error(this.l10n.t('Unexpected error. Password did not change.'));
          }
        })
        .finally(() => {
          this.set('isLoading', false);
          this.setProperties({ 'passwordCurrent': '', 'passwordNew': '', 'passwordRepeat': '' });
        });
    }

Here, we are getting the old password and the new password passed from the form and making a POST to the endpoint:

v1/auth/change-password

If the old password check goes successful on the server side, the server returns a successful response:

{ 
 "email": "example@example.com",
 "id": "1",
 "name": "example",
 "password-changed": true
}

Thus, the user can change password in Open Event Frontend.
Resources: Docs on loader service in Ember JS

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Implementing Event Copy API in Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend, we give the organizer a facility to create a copy of the event by copying it and making the modifications he wants to a particular event. Thus, it is easy for the organizer to create multiple events with same sponsors, sessions, etc. For this, we implemented the event copy API in frontend.
We achieved the copy of events as follows:
Since the event copy API is application/json type, we used the simple GET and POST requests to copy the event rather than using the ember data. For this, we use the loader service which is injected throughout the app. To copy the event we have given a “Copy” button which looks as follows:

 <button class="ui button {{if isCopying 'loading'}}" {{action 'copyEvent'}} disabled={{isCopying}}>
    <i class="copy icon"></i>
        {{t 'Copy'}}
 </button>

Thus, we trigger an action ‘copyEvent’ on clicking the Copy button. The action is defined in controller as follows:

 copyEvent() {
      this.set('isCopying', true);
      this.get('loader')
        .post(`events/${this.get('model.id')}/copy`, {})
        .then(copiedEvent => {
          this.transitionToRoute('events.view.edit', copiedEvent.identifier);
          this.get('notify').success(this.l10n.t('Event copied successfully'));
        })
        .catch(() => {
          this.get('notify').error(this.l10n.t('Copying of event failed'));
        })
        .finally(() => {
          this.set('isCopying', false);
        });
    }

The endpoint to copy the event as defined in our API is:

POST : /v1/events/{identifier}/copy
Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json
Authorization: JWT <Auth Key>
Request body: {}

Thus, we make a post request to the given URL by passing the event id of the event to be copied and the request body to be an empty object. Thus, on successful response from the server, we get the new event id for which the event info is same. We then redirect the user to the edit details route where he can change the info he wants.
Thus, we copy the event in Open Event Frontend.

Resources: Docs on loader service in Ember JS

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