Email Verification Confirmation Flow

Please, I need help creating a session in this route so that my app can redirect to the dashboard after a successful verification confirmation process. Code below

``

import { type NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server"; import { createUserEmailVerificationConfirmation } from "@/lib/actions/user.actions"; import { cookies } from "next/headers";

// Creating a handler to a GET request to route /auth/verify-email export async function GET(request: NextRequest) { const { searchParams } = new URL(request.url); const userId = searchParams.get("userId"); const secret = searchParams.get("secret"); const next = "/dashboard";

// Create redirect link without the secret token const redirectTo = request.nextUrl.clone(); redirectTo.pathname = next; redirectTo.searchParams.delete("userId"); redirectTo.searchParams.delete("secret");

if (userId && secret) { const response = await createUserEmailVerificationConfirmation({ userId, secret, });

console.log(response, "see response");

if (response) {
  redirectTo.searchParams.delete("next");

  // Create a NextResponse object for setting cookies
  const redirectResponse = NextResponse.redirect(redirectTo);

  //Intended to create a session here

  redirectResponse.cookies.set("session", `session value here`, {
    path: "/",
    httpOnly: true,
    sameSite: "strict",
    secure: true,
  });

  return redirectResponse;
}

}

// return the user to an error page with some instructions redirectTo.pathname = "/error"; return NextResponse.redirect(redirectTo); }

``

After signing up, a verification link is sent, which works fine; it takes the user to the route above. However, I need a session to redirect to the protected dashboard. What is the appropriate flow to handle this as I don't have the email or password in this route?