Documentation on how to get the authenticated user

[amitassaraf]

Hello, currently there seems to be no documentation on how to fetch the JWT token details of the user who has made the request to the typescript function. How can I do this?

[daniel-chambers]

If you configure JWT authentication with your Supergraph, your claims can be made available as Session Variables. You can then bind session variables to command arguments using CommandPermissions (more docs here). Command arguments are just the arguments you define on your TypeScript function.

So in short:

• Configure JWT auth on your supergraph to get claim values as session variables
• Define arguments that would take your claim values on your functions
• Introspect your connector then add commands for your functions
• Use CommandPermissions to bind the session variables to your arguments

[daniel-chambers]

I've moved this issue to https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine so where it can receive more attention. :) Our tooling is set up to monitor issues on this repo and this is where we collect them.