parse-server: [2.3.2] Always unauthorized using sessionToken from user (request.user)

Issue Description

My instance of Parse Server always error out with error “ParseError { code: undefined, message: ‘unauthorized’ }” when using find({sessionToken: <the session token>}). The session token is retrieved with “request.user.getSessionToken()”.

Steps to reproduce

var token = request.user.getSessionToken(); // it is not null
var query = new Parse.Query(MyTable);
query.find({sessionToken: token}).then(function(results) {
...
});

Expected Results

No error

Actual Outcome

ParseError { code: undefined, message: ‘unauthorized’ }

Environment Setup

• Server

  • parse-server version (Be specific! Don’t say ‘latest’.) : 2.3.2
  • Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Hardware: Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 6 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-5 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 6 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 63 Stepping: 2 CPU MHz: 2499.980 BogoMIPS: 5001.29 Hypervisor vendor: KVM Virtualization type: full L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 4096K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-5
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, Heroku, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc): Linode

• Database

  • MongoDB version: 3.0.8
  • Localhost or remote server? (AWS, mLab, ObjectRocket, Digital Ocean, etc): Local to the same machine