Getting a logged user through the Parse GraphQL API
Problem
You want to get a logged user’s data from your backend through the Parse GraphQL API.
Solution
Using the Parse GraphQL API, you can get a logged user’s data just by sending the user’s sessionToken
through the X-Parse-Session-Token
header (as described in the authenticating a user recipe) and calling the me
query.
Depending on the version of Parse you choose to run, the GraphQL queries, mutations and results will be slightly different.
Please choose the correct example along with the Parse version you are running.
The headers for this query are X-Parse-Application-Id
, X-Parse-Client-Key
and X-Parse-Session-Token
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| query GetCurrentUser {
viewer {
sessionToken
user {
id
objectId
}
}
}
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Result Parse 4.4.0 and later:
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| {
"data": {
"viewer": {
"sessionToken": "r:07dbfe8425d47d57c973bddce0df2ec9",
"user": {
"id": "X1VzZXI6OXZjM05sallIUA==",
"objectId": "9vc3NljYHP"
}
}
}
}
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| query Me {
viewer {
user{
id
createdAt
updatedAt
username
}
sessionToken
}
}
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Result Parse 3.10.0 and 4.2.0:
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| {
"data": {
"viewer": {
"user": {
"id": "X1VzZXI6UHNOUkJ3Y1YyRQ==",
"createdAt": "2020-02-06T13:38:04.517Z",
"updatedAt": "2020-02-06T13:38:04.517Z",
"username": "somefolk"
},
"sessionToken": "r:00afa413b9cadd1007ad9ccd3c00f1c9"
}
}
}
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| query Me {
users {
results{
id,
createdAt,
updatedAt,
username
}
}
}
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Result Parse 3.9.0:
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| {
"data": {
"users": {
"me": {
"objectId": "NyU1lNlhPd",
"createdAt": "2019-07-29T09:09:58.222Z",
"updatedAt": "2019-07-29T09:09:58.222Z",
"username": "somefolk"
}
}
}
}
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| query Me{
viewer {
sessionToken
username
}
}
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Result Parse 3.8.0:
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| {
"data": {
"viewer": {
"sessionToken": "r:5c5024921339edf773b5b3e867d708be",
"username": "somefolk"
}
}
}
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| query Me {
users {
me {
objectId,
createdAt,
updatedAt,
username,
sessionToken
}
}
}
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Result Parse 3.7.2:
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| {
"data": {
"users": {
"me": {
"objectId": "NyU1lNlhPd",
"createdAt": "2019-07-29T09:09:58.222Z",
"updatedAt": "2019-07-29T09:09:58.222Z",
"username": "somefolk",
"sessionToken": "r:cbca71d29d7601761b48ed01bbe9638d"
}
}
}
}
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