User object "data" was not found - Express Typescript JWT

[ivan.koitchev16]

I am getting the following error in Express when attempting to validate the permissions of an incoming request with JWT:

UnauthorizedError: user object “user” was not found. Check your configuration

I am using express-jwt to verifiy the incoming JWT. This seems to be working. However for checking the token’s permissions, I am using express-jwt-permissions, which according to the documentation is supposed to work with express-jwt, exactly as I am doing, but I keep getting that error.

I decoded my token using jwt.io and I indeed have no “user” object inside the payload. However I was left with the impression that this is not a problem, because express-jwt should set decode and create the object inside the request ( I am not sure about this part though).

Is this a problem of the library(ies) handling the token verification, with my configuration or something with the token itself (even though it is valid)?

Configuration:

[jinggu2025]

Hi Ivan! I met the same issue in my project. May I ask if you solved this problem finally?

[ivan.koitchev16]

Its been a while since I did, from what I recall, I needed to specify which property in the request contains the user information. requestProperty: 'user', adding this just before the audience property fixed it for me. Of course, user should be replaced with the name of the user prop in the request.