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Better Auth•3d ago
Niels

Manually create a session

Hi, for testing purposes I want to create a session in my own controller, and set the right cookies. Although, it seems like the sesison token has to be in a certain structure. Has anyone got a better idea on how I can implement this? The cookie names do match, I am using NextJS so I would need a backend approach to create the sessions. 
      // Create or get the test user
      const user = await plainPrisma.user.upsert({
        where: { email: STAGING_EMAIL },
        update: {},
        create: {
          email: STAGING_EMAIL,
          name: "Staging Test",
        },
      });

      // Create a session
      const session = await plainPrisma.session.create({
        data: {
          token: nanoid(64),
          userId: user.id,
          userAgent: "Playwright",
          ipAddress: "::1",
          expiresAt: new Date(Date.now() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000), // 24 hours from now
        },
      });

      const secureCookie = true;

      // Set cookie through Next.js API
      const cookieStore = await cookies();
      cookieStore.set("better-auth.session_token", session.token, {
        expires: session.expiresAt,
        httpOnly: true,
        secure: secureCookie,
        sameSite: "lax",
        path: "/",
      });

      cookieStore.set("__Secure-better-auth.session_token", session.token, {
        expires: session.expiresAt,
        httpOnly: true,
        secure: secureCookie,
        sameSite: "lax",
        path: "/",
      });
      // Create or get the test user
      const user = await plainPrisma.user.upsert({
        where: { email: STAGING_EMAIL },
        update: {},
        create: {
          email: STAGING_EMAIL,
          name: "Staging Test",
        },
      });

      // Create a session
      const session = await plainPrisma.session.create({
        data: {
          token: nanoid(64),
          userId: user.id,
          userAgent: "Playwright",
          ipAddress: "::1",
          expiresAt: new Date(Date.now() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000), // 24 hours from now
        },
      });

      const secureCookie = true;

      // Set cookie through Next.js API
      const cookieStore = await cookies();
      cookieStore.set("better-auth.session_token", session.token, {
        expires: session.expiresAt,
        httpOnly: true,
        secure: secureCookie,
        sameSite: "lax",
        path: "/",
      });

      cookieStore.set("__Secure-better-auth.session_token", session.token, {
        expires: session.expiresAt,
        httpOnly: true,
        secure: secureCookie,
        sameSite: "lax",
        path: "/",
      });
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Niels
NielsOP•2d ago
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