Metadata from User

[rickyking]

Hi,

Thanks for this great package!

Do you think it's possible to easily obtain the metadata from auth0?

that would be great to help me control the app content display.

[cwilligv]

Hi @rickyking ,

I know it's been a while since you posted this question, however, I wanted to contribute to the answer for everyone's benefit. Today, this can be done via Actions and previously this was done via Rules (javascript functions).

The steps to append metadata into the user info response once the user logs in are:

1. add the following two parameters under the user metadata section in Auth0: name and address
2. create custom action from the library menu, let's call it Add metadata
3. Use setCustomClaim to retrieve user_matadata and append it to user info

exports.onExecutePostLogin = async (event, api) => {
  const namespace = 'https://myapp.com';

  api.idToken.setCustomClaim(
    `${namespace}/name`,
    event.user.user_metadata.name
  );
  
  api.idToken.setCustomClaim(
    `${namespace}/address`,
    event.user.user_metadata.address
  );
};

4. Deploy the action
5. Attach the action to the login flow (see this link for more info)

After all the steps you should have the user metadata coming in the auth0_info object in shiny.