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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.

getAuthUserId behaves oddly

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