Management API - user creation with id specified

[sergeantwolf]

Hi,

In Auth0 management API, user creation call, there is a possibility to specify particular user_id.
I can't find a way do set it via the client here, since User class id field doesn't have a setter.

Any way to work around this besides implementing POST call by hand?

[lbalmaceda]

@sergeantwolf I think this is new 🤔 . I could add a setter for the id in that case. I'll review with the team 👍 Q: Why would you want your own id instead of using the random hash that the db assigns?

[sergeantwolf]

@lbalmaceda thanks for the quick answer!
It's pretty simple, I'm doing an ongoing sync of users from existing database. It's quite convenient to have a match in terms of ids for that purpose.

[lbalmaceda]

I don't know if the user_id can be changed once set, probably not. Just remember that the ids will have a provider|id format, where provider is the connection provider i.e. facebook or auth0, and id is the value you pass to this post as user_id.

[sergeantwolf]

Yeah, you can't change the userId value for existing user. Which makes perfect sense imo :)