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.