Adding user roles to users received from the management APIs

[tyf]

Hey there @stehranchi!

@stehranchi

I’ve tried both actions and rules to add “roles” to id and access tokens via custom claims. They are added successfully to these tokens, but this has no effect on the user object I receive from the above API.

The roles will need to be added directly to the user in order to be included in the user object. You can still achieve this in Action, but you’ll need to use the Management API from within the Action itself, please see:

How can I use the Management API in Actions?

Question: How can I use the Management API in Actions? Answer: There are plans to expand functionality in Actions even more in the future. Currently, the only built-in method for using the Management API from within Actions is for updating user metadata. You can use the api object to update user metadata in a pre-user-registration or post-login action: api.user.setUserMetadata(name, value) api.user.setAppMetadata(name, value) If you need to use the Management API for something other than upda…

Hope this helps!