meet/src/frontend/src/features/auth/api/fetchUser.ts

import { ApiError } from '@/api/ApiError'
import { fetchApi } from '@/api/fetchApi'
import { type ApiUser } from './ApiUser'
import { attemptSilentLogin, canAttemptSilentLogin } from '../utils/silentLogin'

/**
 * fetch the logged-in user from the api.
 *
 * If the user is not logged in, the api returns a 401 error.
 * Here our wrapper just returns false in that case, without triggering an error:
 * this is done to prevent unnecessary query retries with react query
 */
export const fetchUser = (
  opts: {
    attemptSilent?: boolean
  } = {
    attemptSilent: true,
  }
): Promise<ApiUser | false> => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    fetchApi<ApiUser>('/users/me')
      .then(resolve)
      .catch((error) => {
        // we assume that a 401 means the user is not logged in
        if (error instanceof ApiError && error.statusCode === 401) {
          // make sure to not resolve the promise while trying to silent login
          // so that consumers of fetchUser don't think the work already ended
          if (opts.attemptSilent && canAttemptSilentLogin()) {
            attemptSilentLogin(30)
          } else {
            resolve(false)
          }
        } else {
          reject(error)
        }
      })
  })
}