Patching user_metadata using the Authentication API results in a 404 statuscode

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I am struggling for already some time with updating user_metadata using the Authentication API (via endpoint https://TENANT.auth0.com/userinfo).

Creating a new user with user_metadata or reading the metadata works well, but when I try to patch this information I receive a statuscode 404.

What I did was creating a rule to include user_metadata and making a PATCH request to the userinfo endpoint of the Authentication API. Or in terms of a CURL command:

curl https://TENANT.eu.auth0.com/userinfo \
	-X PATCH \
	-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
	-H 'Authorization: Bearer ABCD' \
	-d '{ "NAMESPACEuser_metadata" : { "name" : "NEWNAME" } }'

The rule was created as:

function (user, context, callback) {
  const namespace = 'UNIQUE NAMESPACE';
  context.idToken[namespace + 'user_metadata'] = user.user_metadata;
  callback(null, user, context);
}

However this results in

Status Code: 404, Headers {
     "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" =     (
         "*"
     );
     "Cache-Control" =     (
         "private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"
     );
     "Content-Encoding" =     (
         gzip
     );
     "Content-Type" =     (
         "text/html; charset=utf-8"
     );
     Date =     (
         "Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:51:40 GMT"
     );
     Vary =     (
         "Accept-Encoding"
     );
     "access-control-allow-credentials" =     (
         false
     );
     "content-security-policy" =     (
         "default-src 'self'"
     );
     "x-auth0-requestid" =     (
         0Bf3asa2e9d2dc47da6c
     );
     "x-content-type-options" =     (
         nosniff
     );

With the management API I have no problems updating user_metadata . Why seems this not possible with the Authentication API (at least there seems no documentation available) so that the users can update the information themselves?

Any help would be appreciated.

2

Would still appreciate any help. Is there any staff that can help me out here?

Thanks

3

Same problem here.

It feels almost silly, but there is a sign-up and a get API-call but no call to let the user update its information.
There must be some option for that? Anyone knows further?

4

Hi!

You can use the Management API to patch current user metadata.

Note: The token must have the update:current_user_metadata scope.

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