Get meta data of currently logged in user.

Describe the problem

I’ve been looking at the documentation but I can’t find any information about it. Every user in the system has metadata, in that metadata are some data that I need, here’s the flow:

1. User logs in (using web login, auth0.webAuth.authorize)
2. If login successful, get user metadata.

Here’s how I’m trying to do it, based on google search results directing me to some issues in this repo, and also the Github’s search bar, like this one https://github.com/auth0/react-native-auth0/issues/197

const credentials = await auth0.webAuth.authorize({
  scope: 'openid profile email read:current_user',
  connection
});

const { accessToken } = credentials;
const { sub } = await auth0.auth.userInfo({ token: accessToken });
const user = await auth0.users({ token: accessToken }).getUser({ id: sub });

I would get:

Bad Request: Bad HTTP authentication header format
    at responseHandler (http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:263790:11)
    at http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:263818:18
    at http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:143005:24
    at flush (http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:143688:11)
    at tryCallOne (http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:3509:14)
    at http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:3610:17
    at http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:30747:21
    at _callTimer (http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:30635:9)
    at _callImmediatesPass (http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:30674:7)
    at MessageQueue.callImmediates [as _immediatesCallback] (http://192.168.1.4:8081/index.bundle?platform=ios&dev=true&minify=false:30891:14)

What was the expected behavior?

Reproduction

Please read the description above.

Environment

• Version of this library used: 2.6.0
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[Widcket]

There are essentially 2 ways of accessing the user’s metadata:

1. Make a request from your app to the Management API. You’ll need to request an AT for that API (by including the Management’s API identifier in the audience array -> https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/) and include the following scope read:current_user.
2. Use a Rule to add the metadata directly onto the ID Token.

there are configurations to be done on the auth0 side to make that happen, is that right?

Exactly, please refer to this docs page.

[aprilmintacpineda]

Thank you very much for the help, we will try the idToken approach 🙇