Question

I am using parse.com and phonegap, and want to be able to pass user credentials between the native and phonegap/uiwebview part of the app.

I have a valid PFUser in the native side, and want to pass/create the same valid user to the web portion of the app.

Can a user be created using existing credentials, maybe Parse.User.current()._sessionToken?

Answer 1

Given a sessionToken and a User’s objectId, you have all the information you should need to re-login a User on the JavaScript side. However, there is no supported method to do it. You would have to do something terrible like:

var user = new Parse.User();
user.id = "the object id";
user._sessionToken = "the session token";
Parse.User._saveCurrentUser(user);
user.fetch({
  success: function(user) {
    // Now the user is logged in.
  }
});

However, this is unsupported, may not work, probably will break in the future, and may burst into flames at any moment. So don’t do it. 😉