getAuthUserId behaves oddly
In many of my functions, I use
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() and found that the value returned by getAuthUserId(ctx) was actually equal to subject rather than _id. How come? Is getAuthUserId first trying to get the ID and if it doesn't exist it returns the session? It can't always be using subject otherwise none of my functions would be working.3 Replies
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Thank you!
Just to link to some relevant code
getAuthUserId just calls auth.getUserIdentity, and then splits subject on | to return the user ID (code)
Tokens get issued with sub as <userId>|<sessionId> (code)
I'm not sure what you mean by "the value returned by getAuthUserId(ctx) was actually equal to subject rather than _id". Could you say more?GitHub
convex-auth/src/server/implementation/index.ts at ffba54c0b3bd9d98e...
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convex-auth/src/server/implementation/tokens.ts at ffba54c0b3bd9d98...
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I think I've solved my question. I sort of instinctively started filling in
withIdentity({ _id: 'foo' }) but what I should have done is withIdentity({ subject: 'foo' })