# DSL: AshAuthentication.AddOn.Confirmation Confirmation support. Sometimes when creating a new user, or changing a sensitive attribute (such as their email address) you may want to wait for the user to confirm by way of sending them a confirmation token to prove that it was really them that took the action. In order to add confirmation to your resource, it must been the following minimum requirements: 1. Have a primary key 2. Have at least one attribute you wish to confirm 3. Tokens must be enabled ## Example ```elixir defmodule MyApp.Accounts.User do use Ash.Resource, extensions: [AshAuthentication] attributes do uuid_primary_key :id attribute :email, :ci_string, allow_nil?: false end authentication do api MyApp.Accounts add_ons do confirmation :confirm do monitor_fields [:email] sender MyApp.ConfirmationSender end end strategies do # ... end end identities do identity :email, [:email] do eager_check_with MyApp.Accounts end end end ``` ## Attributes A `confirmed_at` attribute will be added to your resource if it's not already present (see `confirmed_at_field` in the DSL documentation). ## Actions By default confirmation will add an action which updates the `confirmed_at` attribute as well as retrieving previously stored changes and applying them to the resource. If you wish to perform the confirm action directly from your code you can do so via the `AshAuthentication.Strategy` protocol. ### Example iex> strategy = Info.strategy!(Example.User, :confirm) ...> {:ok, user} = Strategy.action(strategy, :confirm, %{"confirm" => confirmation_token()}) ...> user.confirmed_at >= one_second_ago() true ## Plugs Confirmation provides a single endpoint for the `:confirm` phase. If you wish to interact with the plugs directly, you can do so via the `AshAuthentication.Strategy` protocol. ### Example iex> strategy = Info.strategy!(Example.User, :confirm) ...> conn = conn(:get, "/user/confirm", %{"confirm" => confirmation_token()}) ...> conn = Strategy.plug(strategy, :confirm, conn) ...> {_conn, {:ok, user}} = Plug.Helpers.get_authentication_result(conn) ...> user.confirmed_at >= one_second_ago() true ## DSL Documentation User confirmation flow * `:name` (`t:atom/0`) - Required. Uniquely identifies the add-on. * `:token_lifetime` - How long should the confirmation token be valid. If no unit is provided, then hours is assumed. Defaults to 3 days. The default value is `{3, :days}`. * `:monitor_fields` (list of `t:atom/0`) - Required. A list of fields to monitor for changes (eg `[:email, :phone_number]`). The confirmation will only be sent when one of these fields are changed. * `:confirmed_at_field` (`t:atom/0`) - The name of a field to store the time that the last confirmation took place. This attribute will be dynamically added to the resource if not already present. The default value is `:confirmed_at`. * `:confirm_on_create?` (`t:boolean/0`) - Generate and send a confirmation token when a new resource is created? Will only trigger when a create action is executed _and_ one of the monitored fields is being set. The default value is `true`. * `:confirm_on_update?` (`t:boolean/0`) - Generate and send a confirmation token when a resource is changed? Will only trigger when an update action is executed _and_ one of the monitored fields is being set. The default value is `true`. * `:inhibit_updates?` (`t:boolean/0`) - Wait until confirmation is received before actually changing a monitored field? If a change to a monitored field is detected, then the change is stored in the token resource and the changeset updated to not make the requested change. When the token is confirmed, the change will be applied. This could be potentially weird for your users, but useful in the case of a user changing their email address or phone number where you want to verify that the new contact details are reachable. The default value is `true`. * `:sender` - Required. How to send the confirmation instructions to the user. Allows you to glue sending of confirmation instructions to [swoosh](https://hex.pm/packages/swoosh), [ex_twilio](https://hex.pm/packages/ex_twilio) or whatever notification system is appropriate for your application. Accepts a module, module and opts, or a function that takes a record, reset token and options. The options will be a keyword list containing the original changeset, before any changes were inhibited. This allows you to send an email to the user's new email address if it is being changed for example. See `AshAuthentication.Sender` for more information. * `:confirm_action_name` (`t:atom/0`) - The name of the action to use when performing confirmation. If this action is not already present on the resource, it will be created for you. The default value is `:confirm`. ## authentication.add_ons.confirmation ```elixir confirmation name \ :confirm ``` User confirmation flow ### Arguments
Name Type Default Docs
name * atom Uniquely identifies the add-on.
### Options
Name Type Default Docs
monitor_fields * list(atom) A list of fields to monitor for changes (eg `[:email, :phone_number]`). The confirmation will only be sent when one of these fields are changed.
sender * (any, any, any -> any) | module How to send the confirmation instructions to the user. Allows you to glue sending of confirmation instructions to [swoosh](https://hex.pm/packages/swoosh), [ex_twilio](https://hex.pm/packages/ex_twilio) or whatever notification system is appropriate for your application. Accepts a module, module and opts, or a function that takes a record, reset token and options. The options will be a keyword list containing the original changeset, before any changes were inhibited. This allows you to send an email to the user's new email address if it is being changed for example. See `AshAuthentication.Sender` for more information.
token_lifetime pos_integer | {pos_integer, :days | :hours | :minutes | :seconds} {3, :days} How long should the confirmation token be valid. If no unit is provided, then hours is assumed. Defaults to 3 days.
confirmed_at_field atom :confirmed_at The name of a field to store the time that the last confirmation took place. This attribute will be dynamically added to the resource if not already present.
confirm_on_create? boolean true Generate and send a confirmation token when a new resource is created? Will only trigger when a create action is executed _and_ one of the monitored fields is being set.
confirm_on_update? boolean true Generate and send a confirmation token when a resource is changed? Will only trigger when an update action is executed _and_ one of the monitored fields is being set.
inhibit_updates? boolean true Wait until confirmation is received before actually changing a monitored field? If a change to a monitored field is detected, then the change is stored in the token resource and the changeset updated to not make the requested change. When the token is confirmed, the change will be applied. This could be potentially weird for your users, but useful in the case of a user changing their email address or phone number where you want to verify that the new contact details are reachable.
confirm_action_name atom :confirm The name of the action to use when performing confirmation. If this action is not already present on the resource, it will be created for you.
### Introspection Target: `AshAuthentication.AddOn.Confirmation`