Type of the field provider is mismatching in the bodyParameters for link method in user management apis

[ghost]

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Description

The field provider is defined as string in the interfaces UserIdentities and GetUsers200ResponseOneOfInnerIdentitiesInner. But for the method link in users section of the management api client, the optional field provider in the bodyParameters of type PostIdentitiesRequest is defined as PostIdentitiesRequestProviderEnum. Due to this, one can't simply extract identitites from a user profile and loop it to link as suggested in the documentation, Since it throws a type mismatch error for provider.

Reproduction

The scenario is finding every account with same email id and linking it together.

Additional context

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node-auth0 version

4.0.1

Node.js version

18

[adamjmcgrath]

Hi @misuvii - thanks for raising this

Due to this, one can't simply extract identitites from a user profile and loop it to link as suggested in the documentation, Since it throws a type mismatch error for provider.

Could you share the code that raises the error? (and a link to the documentation)

[ghost]

@adamjmcgrath This is the code that raises the error

  const mergeMetadataAndLinkUsersTask = async (
    secondary: GetUsers200ResponseOneOfInner,
    identity: GetUsers200ResponseOneOfInnerIdentitiesInner,
  ) => {
    // Include user & app metadata
    const mergedUserMetadata = merge({}, secondary.user_metadata, primary.user_metadata);
    const mergedAppMetadata = merge({}, secondary.app_metadata, primary.app_metadata);

    const updateUserTask = async () => {
      await client.users.update(
        { id: primary.user_id! },
        {
          user_metadata: mergedUserMetadata,
          app_metadata: mergedAppMetadata,
        },
      );
    };

    const linkUsersTask = async () => {
      await client.users.link(
        { id: primary.user_id! },
        {
          user_id: secondary.user_id!,
          provider: identity.provider, // Here identity.provider is a string, but the method expects it to be of type PostIdentitiesRequestProviderEnum
        },
      );
    };

    await Promise.all([updateUserTask(), linkUsersTask()]);
  };```

[adamjmcgrath]

Thanks for clarifying @misuvii - I've raised this with the team that owns those endpoints, will see if we can get this changed.

In the meantime, you can safely cast the identity.provider property as PostIdentitiesRequestProviderEnum

const linkUsersTask = async () => {
  await client.users.link(
    { id: primary.user_id! },
    {
      user_id: secondary.user_id!,
      provider: identity.provider as PostIdentitiesRequestProviderEnum,
    }
  );
};

[cbeardsmore]

Also hit this issue today, will use typecasting to bypass for now

[harshithRai]

Thanks for the report! Apologies for the delay in following up on this. We'd recommend upgrading to v5(if you haven't already) as v4 is no longer actively maintained; see the v5 Migration Guide to get started. I'll be moving this to discussion to decide a way forward wrt v4.

Please reopen or file a new issue if you continue to see this problem on v5.