Struggling to get understand how to get and set user metadata. I'm currently using Netlify for backend. Do I need add these code snippets as Netlify functions? https://supertokens.com/docs/passwordless/common-customizations/usermetadata/get-data

hey @BirdMan - yes you do need to add them into your existing netlify functions - either in your APIs or in supertokens.init as customisations.

thanks, I got it sorted out! So do I need to do another API call to get usermetadata in the front end? This is what I have now:

const sessionExists = await Session.doesSessionExist();
if (sessionExists) {
  const user_id = await Session.getUserId();
  const userDetails = await getUserDetails();
}

getUserDetails

calls the netlify function. Is there a cleaner way to do this?

You could add the stuff you want to the session's access token payload and access that directly on the frontend

nice, that works! Thanks for responding so quickly here

Yea. Override the createNewSession function on the backend

thanks, where can I get the user phone number from? It's not in metadata and cant' see an endpoint for it in passwordless recipe for node

there are functions exposed by the passwordless recipe like getUserById

perfect!

I’m not quite sure what’s going on here. Metadata update should happen only in the backend.

@rp I have a front end component where users can change metadata (their team name). I can change this with a post request to a netlify function, but I'm still getting the existing metadata even though I can see it's updated correctly inside user dashboard

The metadata is not added to the session automatically

ah yeah thanks, I can see here. Is there an example of this netlify function that doesn't use typescript?

There isn’t an example for that.

think I have it figured out thanks

export const refreshSession = async function() {
  const { metadata } = await getUserDetails();
  await Session.attemptRefreshingSession();
  let sessionExists = await Session.doesSessionExist();
  if (sessionExists) {
    let user_id = await Session.getUserId();
    let accessTokenPayload = await Session.getAccessTokenPayloadSecurely();
    user.set({
      id: user_id,
      phone_number: accessTokenPayload.phone_number,
      metadata: accessTokenPayload.metadata
    });
  }
};

so getUserDetails is a netlify function that gets updated metadata and merges into access token. Then I am refreshing session and updating my front end store

yes

@rp Thanks so much for your help and quick responsiveness here. Just finished migrating 3000+ users from Auth0. https://www.saturdayquiztime.com.au/