getSession({req}) not working in api route

Question 💬

Hello!

I have an api route which I am trying to protect by getting the session using const session = await getSession({req}).

However, it always returns null; Any help diagnosing the issue here is much appreciated, I have looked through the example app and I really can’t see what I am doing differently that would cause this.

How to reproduce ☕️

My api route is as follows:

import { getSession } from "next-auth/react";

const { CosmosClient } = require("@azure/cosmos");

export default async (req, res)  => {
    const session = await getSession({req});
    console.log(session); //null
}

[…nextauth].js

import NextAuth from "next-auth"
import GithubProvider from "next-auth/providers/github"

export default NextAuth({
  providers: [
    GithubProvider({
      clientId: process.env.GITHUB_ID,
      clientSecret: process.env.GITHUB_SECRET,
    })
  ],
})

_app.js

import { SessionProvider } from "next-auth/react"
import { useSession, signIn, signOut } from "next-auth/react"

export default function App({
  Component,
  pageProps: { session, ...pageProps },
}) {
  return (
    <SessionProvider session={session}>
      <User></User>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </SessionProvider>
  )
}

function User() {
  const { data: session } = useSession()
  if (session) { 
    return (
      <>        
        Signed in as {session.user.email} <br />        
        <button onClick={() => signOut()}>Sign out</button>      
      </>
    )
  } 
  return (
    <>      
      Not signed in <br />      
      <button onClick={() => signIn()}>Sign in</button>    
    </>
  )
}

It is worth noting that the sign in / sign out works correctly and shows my email when I am logged in at the same time that getSession() in my api route returns null

Contributing 🙌🏽

No, I am afraid I cannot help regarding this

[Klin-Coders]

firstly its is not advised to call your api routes using getServerSideProps…

but do you mind showing how you are using it in getServerSideProps?? to see if i can help maybe?

[balazsorban44]

The initial description/issue title did not mention getServerSideProps.

A reproduction repository would be very heplful.