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Shahed Nasser 0462cc5acf docs: updates to use DML and other changes (#7834)
- Change existing data model guides and add new ones for DML
- Change module's docs around service factory + remove guides that are now necessary
- Hide/remove all mentions of module relationships, or label them as coming soon.
- Change all data model creation snippets to use DML
- use `property` instead of `field` when referring to a data model's properties.
- Fix all snippets in commerce module guides to use new method suffix (no more main model methods)
- Rework recipes, removing/hiding a lot of sections as a lot of recipes are incomplete with the current state of DML.


### Other changes

- Highlight fixes in some guides
- Remove feature flags guide
- Fix code block styles when there are no line numbers.

### Upcoming changes in other PRs

- Re-generate commerce module references (for the updates in the method names)
- Ensure that the data model references are generated correctly for models using DML.
- (probably at a very later point) revisit recipes
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---
sidebar_label: "Authentication Flows"
---
export const metadata = {
title: `Authentication Flows with the Auth Provider`,
}
# {metadata.title}
In this document, you'll learn about how the Auth Provider is used in an authentication flow.
## How to Authenticate a User
To authenticate a user, you use the [authenticate method of the Auth Module's main service](/references/auth/authenticate). For example:
```ts
const data = await authModuleService.authenticate(
"emailpass",
// passed to auth provider
{
// ...
}
)
```
This method calls the `authenticate` method of the provider specified in the first parameter and returns its data.
---
## Basic Authentication Flow
If the `authenticate` method returns the following object:
```ts
data = {
success: true,
authIdentity: {
// ...
},
}
```
Then, the user is authenticated successfully, and their authentication details are available within the `authIdentity` object.
<Note>
Check out the [AuthIdentity](/references/auth/models/AuthIdentity) reference for the expected properties in `authIdentity`.
</Note>
![Diagram showcasing the basic authentication flow](https://res.cloudinary.com/dza7lstvk/image/upload/v1711373749/Medusa%20Resources/basic-auth_lgpqsj.jpg)
---
## Authentication with Third-Party Service Flow
If the `authenticate` method returns the following object:
```ts
data = {
success: true,
location: "https://....",
}
```
It means the authentication process requires the user to perform an action with a third-party service. For example, when using the `google` provider, the user goes to the URL specified in the `location`'s value to log in with their Google account.
![Diagram showcasing the first part of the third-party authentication flow](https://res.cloudinary.com/dza7lstvk/image/upload/v1711374847/Medusa%20Resources/third-party-auth-1_enyedy.jpg)
### validateCallback
Providers handling this authentication flow must implement the `validateCallback` method. It implements the logic to validate the authentication with the third-party service.
So, once the user performs the required action, the third-party service must redirect to an API route that uses the [validateCallback method of the Auth Module's main service](/references/auth/validateCallback). The method calls the specified providers `validateCallback` method passing it the authentication details it received in the second parameter:
```ts
const data = await authModuleService.validateCallback(
"google",
// passed to auth provider
{
// ...
}
)
```
If the authentication is successful, the `validateCallback` method returns the same data as the basic authentication:
```ts
data = {
success: true,
authIdentity: {
// ...
},
}
```
![Diagram showcasing the second part of the third-party authentication flow](https://res.cloudinary.com/dza7lstvk/image/upload/v1711375123/Medusa%20Resources/third-party-auth-2_kmjxju.jpg)