Can I assign an email to an exisiting user So I want users t

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Can I assign an email to an exisiting user So I want users to sign up using the phone otp and verify email with OTP how can I do this later they can signin using either passwordless

rp · Answer

hey < web3geek> i don t think i understand the flow clearly Can you explain again

web3geek · Answer

Hey < rp> So what I have is first the user signups using phone and otp then I take their email now I want to verify this email with otp If I use the code API with email it will generate a new user id right So basically what I m looking for is verify email with otp and make sure that it s assigned to the actual userId so he can later login with email or phone and we know it s the same user

rp · Answer

Ah I see To do that you can associate the new email with the same user Id before generating the code

rp · Answer

There should be a function like Passwordless updateUserInfo using which you can associate the email to this user

rp · Answer

So what you should do is let the code be consumed and let it create a new user Once the new user is created you can delete the new user and associate the email with the existing userId

rp · Answer

And you can do all this via overriding of consumeCode API

rp · Answer

finally to prevent a new session from being created you can check if a session exists in the api before calling the original implementation and then add the existing session to the userContext object Then in the createNewSession override you can check if a session exists in the userContext and if it does just return that existing session

rp · Answer

If you want I can send over some code for this in sometime

web3geek · Answer

yes please that would be great thanks a lot

rp · Answer

hey < web3geek>

rp · Answer

Here is the code snippet https gist github com rishabhpoddar fd0879e109061bd1553146c50980e6ff

CaptainPhoton · Answer

How would I use this If I go to the login route it just sends me back to the app if I am logged in

CaptainPhoton · Answer

And if I log out then I don t have the session

rp · Answer

< CaptainPhoton> you can override the doesSessionExist function on the frontend session recipe to return false for the route on which you want to show the phone number input UI

CaptainPhoton · Answer

Not sure I follow Can I override it elsewhere than in the init

rp · Answer

you will have to override it in init

rp · Answer

on the frontend

rp · Answer

Similar to how this is happening https github com supertokens supertokens auth react blob master examples with thirdparty 2fa passwordless src App js L94

CaptainPhoton · Answer

thanks I ll check it out

CaptainPhoton · Answer

userContext is empty in the doesSessionExist function Setting it from the route like in the example

rp · Answer

Yea You can set it like that

rp · Answer

or in the override for doesSessionExistm you can check the current path of the url and if it s auth info then return `false`

CaptainPhoton · Answer

but it s empty input userContext is an empty object here

CaptainPhoton · Answer

okay I ll check the URL then

rp · Answer

which version of the supertokens auth react SDK

CaptainPhoton · Answer

0 23 2 I believe

rp · Answer

right That should work then

rp · Answer

hmm

CaptainPhoton · Answer

it should return false there I fixed it in the code

rp · Answer

so the doesSessionExist s userContext can be empty if it s being called by other places

CaptainPhoton · Answer

I have to check the url then

rp · Answer

you can but the context passing you did should work too

CaptainPhoton · Answer

it would be nice

rp · Answer

if it doesn t can you open an issue about it in our repo

CaptainPhoton · Answer

okay I ll do that

rp · Answer

thanks

CaptainPhoton · Answer

It would be easier with a Supertokens interface where a logged in user could change their email and phone number

CaptainPhoton · Answer

or link to a thirdparty account

rp · Answer

yea agreed We will add them at somepoint for sure If you like you can open a feature request for this

CaptainPhoton · Answer

would be great

CaptainPhoton · Answer

done https github com supertokens supertokens auth react issues 514

rp · Answer

thanks Will have a look