Endpoint /auth/authenticate returns 500 error

[shealavington]

Bug Report

Steps to Reproduce

There are two ways to get a 500 error that should be returning 4XX Errors

1. How to get a bad 500 error

1. Create or make a user as Draft through the GUI
2. Create a post request with a body {"email":"x@x.x","password":"xxx"} (X = User info)
3. Authenticate at endpoint /auth/authenticate with the post information above
4. Receive a 500 error

2. How to get a bad 500 error

1. Create or make a user as Active through the GUI
2. Create a post request with a body {"email":"x@x.x","password":"yyy"} (X = User info, Y=Invalid info)
3. Authenticate at endpoint /auth/authenticate with the post information above
4. Receive a 500 error

Expected Behavior

Receive a 4XX Error with a useful message about the reason for failing

Actual Behavior

Receive a 500 Error

Other Context & Screenshots

Technical Details

• Device: Desktop
• OS: Windows 10
• Web Server: Apache
• PHP Version: 7.1
• Database: MySQL 5.7
• Install Method: Cloned Direcus 7.5

[wellingguzman]

Hey @shealavington, did you test the first way to reproduce this error in the recent version? That bug should've been fixed by 4aa9b92

2. How to get a bad 500 error

1. Create or make a user as Active through the GUI
2. Create a post request with a body {"email":"x@x.x","password":"yyy"} (X = User info, Y=Invalid info)
3. Authenticate at endpoint /auth/authenticate with the post information above
4. Receive a 500 error

I will give this a try. which data did you use for Invalid Info? I will try all I can think of, but I wanted to know which one did you use.

[wellingguzman]

The problem with invalid data on the credentials has been fixed by f7891dc