Machine-to-Machine Access Token through Actions

[saiful1991]

Hello,

I would like to ask about a business use-case where user/client requests for a Machine-to-Machine access token through Actions. Client will request a m2m access token and an Action would decide if it will return either a cached token or a newly generated token. it would be something like this:

Client -> Token Requested -> Action (If available return cached token, else create a new token and return) -> Token Issued -> Client

Based on this use-case I have following questions:

1. Is this a supported scenario using Actions?
2. If it is not, is this feature already there in the roadmap?
3. Is there any recommendation to implement this outside of auth0?

Thanks in advance.

[tyf]

Hi there @saiful1991!

I believe this may be exactly what you are looking for:

Caching Management API Access Tokens in Login Action

Problem statement: How do I cache a Management API access token(s) using the Node Management Client and Actions caching functionality? Auth0 recently announced the ability to cache tokens within our extensibility solution, Actions. This has been a much requested feature that we are excited to have finally released. As many users utilize the Node Management Client to interact with the Management API by way of Actions, the question of how to incorporate the new caching functionality has arisen. S…

I will say that my colleague tested this recently and ran into some issues with the size of the cached value - His findings may prove useful as well:

Caching M2M access token in Actions

Hi @saiful1991, Thank you for your patience. After carefully going through our Action Limitations documentation, I noticed that it makes note that the cumulative size of cached keys and their values must not exceed 8192 bytes. Given that, one way to make this work is to use a few cache (key, value) pairs to store the Management API Token. Because Cache Keys are limited to 2048 bytes, we can make this work with 3 Cache items. I have tested this myself and got it to work with the following: …

Hope this helps!