Using Clerk OAuth app with Convex? How to setAuth()?
I am following this for creating my own OAuth app through Clerk: https://clerk.com/docs/advanced-usage/clerk-idp from their tutorial it is clear that I can access
/oauth/userinfo to get the userId. But I am not sure what is the access token format from Clerk (looks like it is not a convex compatible jwt) and what should I do if I want to use a convex client from backend.
After I have the access token from Clerk OAuth or I already know the userId within the request, how to setAuth() for convex client? I don't know what jwt to pass in since I am using Clerk. Is there a super admin convex client that I can directly operate with known userId?
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Hey @Jczhang, is there any particular reason you are using this Clerk flow, and not the typical flow as shown here?
https://clerk.com/docs/integrations/databases/convex#integrate-convex-with-clerk
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Thank you @Michal Srb I figured this out. I am using Clerk OAuth from backend so cannot really use the provider here (btw on my frontend I also uses clerk convex provider with no problem). I am manually validating the access token from Clerk OAuth now and was able to use a password/apiKey to authenticate with my convex query. Thanks!