Function sendVerificationEmail

backend/src/api/controllers/user.ts:144–246

(
  req: MonkeyRequest,
)

}

export async function sendVerificationEmail(
  req: MonkeyRequest,
): Promise<MonkeyResponse> {
  const { email, uid } = req.ctx.decodedToken;
  const isVerified = (
    await FirebaseAdmin()
      .auth()
      .getUser(uid)
      .catch((e: unknown) => {
        throw new MonkeyError(
          500, // this should never happen, but it does. it mightve been caused by auth token cache, will see if disabling cache fixes it
          "Auth user not found, even though the token got decoded",
          JSON.stringify({
            uid,
            email,
            stack: e instanceof Error ? e.stack : JSON.stringify(e),
          }),
          uid,
        );
      })
  ).emailVerified;
  if (isVerified) {
    throw new MonkeyError(400, "Email already verified");
  }

  const userInfo = await UserDAL.getPartialUser(
    uid,
    "request verification email",
    ["uid", "name", "email"],
  );

  if (userInfo.email !== email) {
    throw new MonkeyError(
      400,
      "Authenticated email does not match the email found in the database. This might happen if you recently changed your email. Please refresh and try again.",
    );
  }

  const { data: link, error } = await tryCatch(
    FirebaseAdmin()
      .auth()
      .generateEmailVerificationLink(email, { url: getFrontendUrl() }),
  );

  if (error) {
    if (isFirebaseError(error)) {
      if (error.errorInfo.code === "auth/user-not-found") {
        throw new MonkeyError(
          500,
          "Auth user not found when the user was found in the database. Contact support with this error message and your email",
          JSON.stringify({
            decodedTokenEmail: email,
            userInfoEmail: userInfo.email,
          }),
          userInfo.uid,
        );
      } else if (error.errorInfo.code === "auth/too-many-requests") {
        throw new MonkeyError(429, "Too many requests. Please try again later");