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User impersonation with Clerk

I'm implementing user impersonation with Clerk (https://clerk.com/docs/custom-flows/user-impersonation), and appear to have succeed in creating an actor token through Clerk's API and authenticating with it.

My ostensible proof of this:

import { useAuth } from "@clerk/clerk-react";

// ...

const { actor } = useAuth(); // `actor` is present

import { useAuth } from "@clerk/clerk-react";

// ...

const { actor } = useAuth(); // `actor` is present

My understanding, per https://clerk.com/docs/custom-flows/user-impersonation#jwt-claims, is when impersonating a user, the subsub claim should contain the ID for the impersonated user, so Convex should by default in all regards treat the impersonator as the impersonated user. But my Convex functions still seem to be functioning as though the value of the subsub claim is the impersonator.

Any clue why this might be happening? Anything I'm misunderstanding about how any of this works?

Convex Community•3y ago•

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User impersonation with Clerk

import { useAuth } from "@clerk/clerk-react";

// ...

const { actor } = useAuth(); // `actor` is present

import { useAuth } from "@clerk/clerk-react";

// ...

const { actor } = useAuth(); // `actor` is present

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