Node + Restify + Passport + Sessions + WebSockets

gistfile1.js

var restify = require('restify');

// Authentication
var passport        = require('passport');
var LocalStrategy   = require('passport-local').Strategy;
var sessions        = require("client-sessions");

var server = restify.createServer();
server.use(restify.queryParser());
server.use(restify.bodyParser());

server.use(sessions({
    // cookie name dictates the key name added to the request object
    cookieName: 'session',
    // should be a large unguessable string
    secret: 'yoursecret',
    // how long the session will stay valid in ms
    duration: 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000    
}));

// Initialize passport
server.use(passport.initialize()); 
// Set up the passport session
server.use(passport.session());

// This is how a user gets serialized
passport.serializeUser(function(user, done) {
    done(null, user.id);
});

// This is how a user gets deserialized
passport.deserializeUser(function(id, done) {
    // Look the user up in the database and return the user object
    // For this demo, return a static user
    return done(null, {id:123456, username:'john'});
});

// Lookup a user in our database
var lookupUser = function(username, password, done) {
    if(username === 'john' && password === 'johnspassword') {
        return done(null, {id:123456, username:'john'});
    }
    
    return done(null, false, { error: 'Incorrect username or password.' });
};

passport.use(new LocalStrategy({ usernameField: 'username', session: true }, lookupUser));





// POST /login
var loginRoute = function(req, res, next) {
    // The local login strategy
    passport.authenticate('local', function(err, user) {
        if (err) {
            return next(err);
        }

        // Technically, the user should exist at this point, but if not, check
        if(!user) {
            return next(new restify.InvalidCredentialsError("Please check your details and try again."));
        }

        // Log the user in!
        req.logIn(user, function(err) {
            if (err) { 
                return next(err);
            }
            console.log(req.isAuthenticated());
            req.session.user_id = req.user.id;

            if(user.username) {
                res.json({ success: 'Welcome ' + user.username + "!"});
                return next();
            }
            
            res.json({ success: 'Welcome!'});
            return next();
        });

    })(req, res, next);
};





// GET /hello
var helloRoute =function(req, res, next) {
    console.log(req.isAuthenticated());
    if(req.user) {
        res.send("Hello " + req.user.username);
    } else {
        res.send("Hello unauthenticated user");
    }

    return next();
};





server.post({url:'/login'}, loginRoute);
server.get({url:'/hello'}, helloRoute);

var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);

/// Parse the given cookie header string into an object
/// The object has the various cookies as keys(names) => values
/// @param {String} str
/// @return {Object}
var parseCookie = function(str, opt) {
    opt = opt || {};
    var obj = {}
    var pairs = str.split(/[;,] */);
    var dec = opt.decode || decodeURIComponent;

    pairs.forEach(function(pair) {
        var eq_idx = pair.indexOf('=')

        // skip things that don't look like key=value
        if (eq_idx < 0) {
            return;
        }

        var key = pair.substr(0, eq_idx).trim()
        var val = pair.substr(++eq_idx, pair.length).trim();

        // quoted values
        if ('"' == val[0]) {
            val = val.slice(1, -1);
        }

        // only assign once
        if (undefined == obj[key]) {
            try {
                obj[key] = dec(val);
            } catch (e) {
                obj[key] = val;
            }
        }
    });

    return obj;
};

io.set('authorization', function (handshakeData, accept) {
    
    // Check that the cookie header is present
    if (!handshakeData.headers.cookie) {
        return accept('No cookie transmitted.', false);
    }
    
    // Get all the cookie objects
    var cookie = parseCookie(handshakeData.headers.cookie);
    
    // Pull out the user from the cookie by using the decode function
    handshakeData.sessionID = sessions.util.decode({cookieName: 'session', secret:'yoursecret'}, cookie['session']);

    accept(null, true);
});

io.on('connection', function(socket) {
    // Get the first key of the handshake data
    var firstKey = Object.keys(socket.manager.handshaken)[0];
    var userId = socket.manager.handshaken[firstKey].sessionID.content.user_id;
    
    // Send a hello message with the user's id
    socket.emit('message', "Hey " + userId);
});

// Launch the server
server.listen(5000, function() {
    console.log('Server running at port 5000');
});

You gave me the missing piece : using the "client-sessions" module.
Thanks!!

Could you share the package.json in order to run the code, thanks!!!

{ "dependencies": {
"socket.io": "*",
"client-sessions": "*",
"passport": "*",
"passport-local": "*",
"restify": "*"
}
}

I got error : Cannot read property 'handshaken' of undefined in
var firstKey = Object.keys(socket.manager.handshaken)[0];

You should change to
var user_id = socket.request.sessionID.content.user_id;