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ianpaschal

getAuthUserId behaves oddly

In many of my functions, I use 
const userId = await getAuthUserId(ctx);
const userId = await getAuthUserId(ctx);
 to get the current user ID and check that it matches user IDs within requests. Works great!

To my surprise though, while testing, it stopped working. So I added 
const userIdentity = await ctx.auth.getUserIdentity()
const userIdentity = await ctx.auth.getUserIdentity()
 and found that the value returned by 
getAuthUserId(ctx)
getAuthUserId(ctx)
 was actually equal to 
subject
subject
 rather than 
_id
_id
. How come? Is 
getAuthUserId
getAuthUserId
 first trying to get the ID and if it doesn't exist it returns the session? It can't always be using 
subject
subject
 otherwise none of my functions would be working.
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