$jwt is not available for an authenticated user with a valid JWT about graphql

[TheRobBrennan]

Resolved!!! Special thanks to @danstarns for helping me troubleshoot this.

The real magic to get $jwt to work is to have a JWT_SECRET environment variable defined for Neo4j and for the backend API.

In my particular project - which is using Next.js for both frontend and backend code - I needed to not only define this variable based on a value from Auth0 but also update the next.config.js so that it is available to the backend API:

For reference, here is an example of the query which is using the $jwt from the @neo4j/graphql library:

    """
    A sample query to return details for the authenticated user currently logged in to our system
    """
    me: User
      @cypher(
        statement: """
        MATCH (u:User {sub: $jwt.sub})
        RETURN u
        """
    ),

[TheRobBrennan]

To reproduce the above bug, please feel free to clone and use my example project at https://github.com/TheRobBrennan/heimdall

[TheRobBrennan]

This is still an open issue. The pull request showing as merged was not blocked.

I am still experiencing this in my sample project - even after making sure Neo4j v4.1.0 or greater is on the back-end 😇

Here is an example of the me query in the type definitions file - along with the User type that it should return:

Here is an example of the me query from an unauthenticated user:

Here is an example of the me query from a user with a valid JWT - demonstrating where MATCH (u:User {sub: $jwt.sub}) fails:

Here is an example of a custom helloAuth query that has to go out of its way to decode the JWT: