From 484ced521fdbeeff6db44a90365aa3321897e782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Zobnin <alexanderzobnin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:56:01 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Auth: Fix identifying rendering request (#80807)

* Auth: Fix identifying rendering request

* Add comments
---
 pkg/api/index.go | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/api/index.go b/pkg/api/index.go
index 5bd1b1860bf..7c67ddb6250 100644
--- a/pkg/api/index.go
+++ b/pkg/api/index.go
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getUserAuthenticatedBy(c *contextmodel.ReqContext, userID
 		return ""
 	}
 
+	// Special case for image renderer. Frontend relies on this information
+	// to render dashboards in a bit different way.
+	if c.IsRenderCall {
+		return login.RenderModule
+	}
+
 	info, err := hs.authInfoService.GetAuthInfo(c.Req.Context(), &login.GetAuthInfoQuery{UserId: userID})
 	// we ignore errors where a user does not have external user auth
 	if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, user.ErrUserNotFound) {