`useAuthProvider`

React-admin stores the authProvider object in a React context, so it’s available from anywhere in your application code. The useAuthProvider hook reads this context to let you call the authProvider directly.

For instance, here is how to call the Auth Provider to get the identity of the current logged-in user:

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { useAuthProvider } from 'react-admin';

import { Loading, Error } from './MyComponents';

const UserName = ({ userId }) => {
    const authProvider = useAuthProvider();
    const [identity, setIdentity] = useState();
    const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
    const [error, setError] = useState();
    useEffect(() => {
        authProvider.getIdentity()
            .then(({ data }) => {
                setIdentity(data);
                setLoading(false);
            })
            .catch(error => {
                setError(error);
                setLoading(false);
            })
    }, [authProvider]);

    if (loading) return <Loading />;
    if (error) return <Error />;
    if (!identity) return null;

    return <>{identity.fullName}</>;
};

But the recommended way to query the Data Provider is to use the authProvider method hooks (like useGetIdentity for instance). Using these hooks, you don’t have to handle the call state yourself.

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { useGetIdentity } from 'react-admin';

import { Loading, Error } from './MyComponents';

const UserName = ({ userId }) => {
    const { identity, isLoading, error } = useGetIdentity();

    if (isLoading) return <Loading />;
    if (error) return <Error />;
    if (!identity) return null;

    return <>{identity.fullName}</>;
};

TypeScript

The useAuthProvider hook accepts a generic parameter for the authProvider type. This is useful when you added custom methods to your authProvider:

// In src/authProvider.ts
import { AuthProvider } from 'react-admin';

export interface CustomAuthProviderMethods extends AuthProvider {
    refreshToken: () => Promise<any>
}

export const authProvider: CustomAuthProviderMethods {
    // ...Standard authProvider methods
    refreshToken: () => {
        // Refresh the user authentication token
    }
}

// In src/RefreshToken.tsx
import { useAuthProvider } from 'react-admin';
import { CustomAuthProviderMethods } from './src/authProvider';

const THIRTY_MINUTES = 1000 * 60 * 30;
export const RefreshToken = () => {
    const authProvider = useAuthProvider<CustomAuthProviderMethods>();

    useEffect(() => {
        const interval = useInterval(() => authProvider.refreshToken(), THIRTY_MINUTES);
        return () => clearInterval(interval);
    }, [authProvider]);

    return null;
};