Properly instantiate user returned with auth response

This adds a serverAlias and debug prop to the auth module

Author: marshallswain

src/auth-module/auth-module.actions.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ eslint
 @typescript-eslint/explicit-function-return-type: 0,
 @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any: 0
 */
+import { models } from '../index'
+
 export default function makeAuthActions(feathersClient) {
   return {
     authenticate(store, data) {
@@ -34,9 +36,19 @@ export default function makeAuthActions(feathersClient) {
           .then(payload => {
             commit('setPayload', payload)
 
+            let user = response[state.responseEntityField]
+
             // If a user was returned in the authenticate response, use that user.
-            if (response[state.responseEntityField]) {
-              commit('setUser', response[state.responseEntityField])
+            if (user) {
+              if (state.serverAlias && state.userService) {
+                const Model = Object.keys(models[state.serverAlias])
+                  .map(modelName => models[state.serverAlias][modelName])
+                  .find(model => model.servicePath === state.userService)
+                if (Model) {
+                  user = new Model(user)
+                }
+              }
+              commit('setUser', user)
               // Populate the user if the userService was provided
             } else if (
               state.userService &&

src/auth-module/auth-module.state.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ eslint
 @typescript-eslint/explicit-function-return-type: 0,
 @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any: 0
 */
-export default function setupAuthState({ userService }) {
+export default function setupAuthState({ userService, serverAlias }) {
   const state = {
     accessToken: null, // The JWT
     payload: null, // The JWT payload
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ export default function setupAuthState({ userService }) {
 
     errorOnAuthenticate: null,
     errorOnLogout: null,
-    user: null
+    user: null,
+    serverAlias
   }
   // If a userService string was passed, add a user attribute
   if (userService) {

src/auth-module/auth-module.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import setupActions from './auth-module.actions'
 const defaults = {
   namespace: 'auth',
   userService: '', // Set this to automatically populate the user (using an additional request) on login success.
+  serverAlias: null,
+  debug: false,
   state: {}, // for custom state
   getters: {}, // for custom getters
   mutations: {}, // for custom mutations
@@ -30,6 +32,11 @@ export default function authPluginInit(feathersClient) {
         'You must register the @feathersjs/authentication-client plugin before using the feathers-vuex auth module'
       )
     }
+    if (options.debug && options.userService && !options.serverAlias) {
+      console.warn(
+        'A userService was provided, but no serverAlias was provided. To make sure the user record is an instance of the User model, a serverAlias must be provided.'
+      )
+    }
 
     const defaultState = setupState(options)
     const defaultGetters = setupGetters()