User authentication

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  Marťafiixeklast year

  Hi!

  
  

  Payload saves password as salt and hash to the database. All find operations are sanitized, and specifically hash and salt are removed from the document when you use any find operations. If you want to query tokens, you can create a custom endpoint and use

  
  

  const { docs } = await req.payload.find({
    collection: "users",
    pagination: false,
    showHiddenFields: true,
    queryHiddenFields: true,
  });

  
  

  
  

  And as Payload uses MongoDB, you can also query the database on your own

  
  

  
  

  For querying all users with all data you can use this snippet inside

  server.ts
  

  import { Collection, Db, MongoClient } from "mongodb"; // You need to install MongoDB as a dependency, but don't worry, as Payload already uses MongoDB already, you won't be adding much more in terms of bloat to your app
  
  app.get("/get-users", async (req, res) => {
    const connectionString = ""; // Paste connection string you use in Payload here just to test it, or use environment variable
    const client = new MongoClient(connectionString);
    let conn: any;
    try {
      conn = await client.connect();
    } catch (e) {
      console.error(e);
    }
    let db: Db = conn.db("prod"); // Set to database you use for your CMS
    const collection: Collection = db.collection("users");
    const users = await collection.find().toArray();
    res.json(users);
  });

  
  

  
  

  As you can see, I got all data

  
  

  
  

  
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  Steplast year

  Where should I do the endpoint, next to my collection?

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  Marťafiixeklast year

  Yes,

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints
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  Steplast year

  I am doing this:

  
  

  endpoints: [{
          path: '/users',
          method: 'get',
          handler: async (req, res, next) => {
  
              const docs = await req.payload.find({
                  collection: 'users',
                  pagination: false,
                  showHiddenFields: true,
                  queryHiddenFields: true,
              });
          }
      }]

  
  

  But where does

  {docs}

  get unstructured from?

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  Marťafiixeklast year

  From the object

  find

  returns

  
  

  
  

  Also, you are not destructuring the docs right now

  
  

  
  

  And I would change the path to something different than users

  
  

  
  

  As right now the endpoint is available at

  api/users/users

  which doesn't make any sense