How to check if the error reason is jwt Token Expiry ?

[geminigeek]

hi,

i am using only jwt tokens for auth ( no cookies ), i want to know if there is a way to find that the token has expired ?
i want to trigger an action if token has expired before sending the errors.
i can check myself in a custom middleware using jwt and secret but is there a way natively in payload for this ?

thanks
Dee

[jmikrut]

Hey @geminigeek — we're using passport-jwt and it's implemented in this file:

https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/blob/master/src/auth/strategies/jwt.ts

A quick check through their docs does not show a way to discern between if the token is expired, missing, or invalid. In the future, we'll be building a way to add your own auth strategies though - so when we have that, you'd be able to build a strategy however you want.

But for now, I think your middleware idea is probably the best bet.