Getting an key :assign missing error in a Plug.Conn without calling assign or assigns

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I’m trying to create a controller function that returns a view of the currently logged in user. I use guardian for authentication, and save during log-in the user’s id:

  def sign_in(conn, %{"email" => email, "hashed_password" => hashed_password}) do
    case Guardian.authenticate(email, hashed_password) do
      {:ok, user, token} ->
        conn
        |> Plug.Conn.put_session(:user_id, user.id)
        |> put_status(:ok)
        |> render(:show_token, user: user, token: token)
      {:error, :unauthorized} -> raise ErrorResponse.Unauthorized, message: "email or password incorrect"

    end
  end

I then create a function that shows the user corresponding to the session

 def show_from_session(conn) do
    user_id = get_session(conn, :user_id)
    user = Users.get_user!(user_id)

    render(conn, "show.json", user: user)
  end

The json object is the standard object created by elixir:

  def show(%{user: user}) do
    %{data: data(user)}
  end

Doing this gives me the following message:

[info] GET /api/swimmer/show_logged_in
[debug] Processing with Backend24hWeb.UserController.show_from_session/2
  Parameters: %{}
  Pipelines: [:api, :swimmer_auth]
[debug] QUERY OK source="users" db=0.3ms queue=0.8ms idle=1007.8ms
SELECT n0."id", n0."email", n0."hashed_password", n0."nom", n0."prenom", n0."inserted_at", n0."updated_at" FROM "users" AS n0 WHERE (n0."id" = $1) ["46180675-91ef-455d-a5a9-8d4b1fb69b06"]
↳ Backend24hWeb.Auth.Guardian.resource_from_claims/1, at: lib/backend24h_web/auth/guardian.ex:15
[info] Sent 500 in 35ms
[error] ** (KeyError) key :assign not found in: %Plug.Conn{
  adapter: {Bandit.Adapter,
   %Bandit.Adapter{ [truncated]

I’m relatively new to Elixir so i’m not sure i interpret this message correctly, but the error seems to come from the guardian.ex file. But this file doesn’t use assign either.

here’s the ressource_from_claims/1 function:

  def resource_from_claims(%{"sub" => id}) do
    case Users.get_user!(id) do
      nil -> {:error, :not_found}
      resource -> {:ok, resource}
    end
 end

I believe some default implementation of this ressource from claims function might get called by my code, but i don’t understand when or why.

Has anyone encoutered a similar issue ?

Thanks in advance

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Realized my mistake here: I created a session plug that would assign a user when called. This plug used conn.assign instead of conn.assigns. This typo is not related to resource_from_claims. I just couldn’t find the typo.