ASAuthorizationController issue when working with multiple requests - ios

So, here's the issue:
If I have both email-password and apple id records in my keychain for an app,
and want to request that data to do auto-login,
I can get email-password based accounts info fine.
Apple ID does not work as expected though.
I receive ASAuthorizationAppleIDCredential object with authorizationCode == nil.
I do receive credential.identityToken and can decode the token. It's a valid one, but the thing is that I need authorizationCode.
If I use stand-alone login function of AppleAuthenticator, it works correctly. ASAuthorizationController executes performRequests perfectly and I can get authorizationCode from ASAuthorizationAppleIDCredential.
The issue is with AggregatedAuthenticator. It seems that ASAuthorizationController is sort of broken and cannot get all the data if there's more than one request passed to it.
AggregatedAuthenticator(anchor: view.window!).startAutoLogin() // does not work with apple id
but
AppleAuthenticator(anchor: view.window!).login() // works
The only difference is that AppleAuthenticator uses only one request in ASAuthorizationController.
The only workaround that I could come up with is if I go to AggregatedAuthenticator and do the login again there, see the comment in code:
public func authorizationController(controller: ASAuthorizationController, didCompleteWithAuthorization authorization: ASAuthorization) {
switch authorization.credential {
case let appleIDCredential as ASAuthorizationAppleIDCredential:
// Question: here we receive the credential without authorizationCode, but why?
appleAuthenticator.login(with: appleIDCredential)
// BUT if I do:
// appleAuthenticator.login()
// it works fine, but it shows that bottom sheet again asking for your face/touch-id again, but only for apple id this time
case let emailPasswordPair as ASPasswordCredential:
emailAuthenticator.login(with: emailPasswordPair)
default:
print("Irrelevant stuff")
}
}
Any ideas, folks?
Take a look at the sample code below:
https://github.com/SergeyPetrachkov/ASAuthControllerIssueSample

Alright, folks, it's an iOS 15 regression. Everything used to work before.

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I use GoogleSignIn for iOS (GoogleSignIn-iOS), v6.1.0, in my iOS app.
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(see also: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/ios/backend-auth)
After a new SignIn with GIDSignIn.sharedInstance.signIn everything works fine.
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Before I do a backend request, I get a valid (=not expired) idToken, with the following code:
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And now my problem comes:
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Same happens when I use GIDSignIn.sharedInstance.restorePreviousSignIn (which I call on every app re-start, to do the silent sign in. (But in the app, the values are there in the updated users object profile)
It seems to me, that when the idToken gets refreshed, that it looses the profile scope.
I hope someone can help me with this, or at least explain the behaviour to me.
Thank in advance :)
Update
I checked the idTokens on https://jwt.io.
They are valid, but after the refresh, the jwt payload definitely is missing the profile data, like the users name.
I waited one day and tried again. Now the silent signin after app start gives me a complete idToken with jwt payload including name, but only once. After an hour, when the idToken gets refreshed, the idToken is again missing the profile information
Unfortunately I got no hint here, so I solved my problem as follows.
I hope this approach can save time for some others in the future.
I only require the profile data, when the user logs in to the backend the first time and a new user record is created in the backend.
In all other calls, where I need the JWT for authentication, I only rely on the basic information (ID, email) and handle all other values as optional values.
So I check the users name, if it is available. Otherwise the ID and a valid token is of course sufficent for authentication.

AWS Amplify iOS SDK : FederatedSignIn Failed to retrieve authorization token on Amplify.API.post

I've been working with the Amplify SDK to get federatedSignIn working with my iOS app with "Sign in with Apple" and Cognito to eventually make calls to API Gateway / Lambda functions.
TL;DR : My access token does not appear to be "automatically included in outbound requests" to my API as per the last paragraph of this section of the docs : Cognito User pool authorization
I have successfully authenticated using the tutorial found here Authentication Getting Started and other various Youtube videos on the Amazon Web Services channel.
Upon successful sign in through Apple I'm given an ASAuthorizationAppleIDCredential object. This contains the user field (token) which I pass to the Amplify.Auth class using the following Swift code :
func signIn (with userId: String)
{
guard
let plugin = try? Amplify.Auth.getPlugin(for: AWSCognitoAuthPlugin().key),
let authPlugin = plugin as? AWSCognitoAuthPlugin,
case .awsMobileClient (let client) = authPlugin.getEscapeHatch()
else
{
return
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{
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}
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{
print ("Successful federated sign in:", unwrappedState)
}
}
}
All appears to be successful and to double check I use the following bit of code to ensure I'm authorized :
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{
let provider = ASAuthorizationAppleIDProvider()
provider.getCredentialState(forUserID: userId) { (credentialsState, error) in
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{
print (unwrappedError)
}
switch credentialsState
{
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print ("User Needs Transfer")
#unknown default:
print ("User Handle new use cases")
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}
In the console I see "User Authorized" so everything appears to be working well.
However when I then go to make a call to Amplify.API.post I get the following error:
[Amplify] AWSMobileClient Event listener - signedOutFederatedTokensInvalid
Failed APIError: Failed to retrieve authorization token.
Caused by:
AuthError: Session expired could not fetch cognito tokens
Recovery suggestion: Invoke Auth.signIn to re-authenticate the user
My function for doing the POST is as follows :
func postTest ()
{
let message = #"{'message": "my Test"}"#
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Amplify.API.post (request:request)
{
result in switch result
{
case .success(let data):
let str = String (decoding: data, as: UTF8.self)
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case .failure(let apiError):
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I then found this post which seems to resolve the issue however this appears to use the old version of the SDK? Get JWT Token using federatedSignIn #1276
I'm not great with Swift (I'm still an Objective C expert, but am slowly learning Swift) so I'm uncertain which path to go here and whether this is actually a solution? It does seem to be quite more complicated than the function I have that does my POST? The RESTRequest does seem to be a simple and easy solution but I'm uncertain how to pass it the Authorization token (or even how to get the token if it is needed here).
However, everything I've read about the SDK is that the authorization should be handled automatically in the background according the docs in my first link above. Specifically pointed out, again, here : Cognito User pool authorization. The last paragraph here states 👍
With this configuration, your access token will automatically be included in outbound requests to your API, as an Authorization header.
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iOS: How to detect if a user is subscribed to an auto-renewable subscription

Hopefully the title is self-explanatory. I'm trying to do something like this:
checkIfUserIsSubscribedToProduct(productID, transactionID: "some-unique-transaction-string", completion: { error, status in
if error == nil {
if status == .Subscribed {
// do something fun
}
}
}
does anything like the hypothetical code I've provided exist? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
Edit
In similar questions I keep seeing a generic answer of "oh you gotta validate the receipt" but no explanation on how, or even what a receipt is. Could someone provide me with how to "validate the receipt"? I tried this tutorial but didn't seem to work.
Edit - For Bounty
Please address the following situation: A user subscribes to my auto-renewable subscription and gets more digital content because of it - cool, implemented. But how do I check whether that subscription is still valid (i.e. they did not cancel their subscription) each time they open the app? What is the simplest solution to check this? Is there something like the hypothetical code I provided in my question? Please walk me through this and provide any further details on the subject that may be helpful.
I know everyone was very concerned about me and how I was doing on this - fear not, solved my problem. Main problem was that I tried Apple's example code from the documentation, but it wasn't working so I gave up on it. Then I came back to it and implemented it with Alamofire and it works great. Here's the code solution:
Swift 3:
let receiptURL = Bundle.main.appStoreReceiptURL
let receipt = NSData(contentsOf: receiptURL!)
let requestContents: [String: Any] = [
"receipt-data": receipt!.base64EncodedString(options: []),
"password": "your iTunes Connect shared secret"
]
let appleServer = receiptURL?.lastPathComponent == "sandboxReceipt" ? "sandbox" : "buy"
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print("Loading user receipt: \(stringURL)...")
Alamofire.request(stringURL, method: .post, parameters: requestContents, encoding: JSONEncoding.default)
.responseJSON { response in
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print(value)
} else {
print("Receiving receipt from App Store failed: \(response.result)")
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}
As some comments pointed out there's a couple flaws with these answers.
Calling /verifyReceipt from the client isn't secure.
Comparing expiration dates against the device clock can be spoofed by changing the time (always a fun hack to try after cancelling a free trial :) )
There are some other tutorials of how to set up a server to handle the receipt verification, but this is only part of the problem. Making a network request to unpack and validate a receipt on every app launch can lead to issues, so there should be some caching too to keep things running smoothly.
The RevenueCat SDK provides a good out-of-the box solution for this.
A couple reasons why I like this approach:
Validates receipt server side (without requiring me to set up a server)
Checks for an "active" subscription with a server timestamp so can't be spoofed by changing the device clock
Caches the result so it's super fast and works offline
There's some more details in this question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55404121/3166209
What it works down to is a simple function that you can call as often as needed and will return synchronously in most cases (since it's cached).
subscriptionStatus { (subscribed) in
if subscribed {
// Show that great pro content
}
}
What are you trying to achieve in particular? Do you want to check for a specific Apple ID?
I highly doubt that this is possible through the SDK. Referring to Is it possible to get the user's apple ID through the SDK? you can see that you can't even ask for the ID directly but rather services attached to it.
What would work is caching all transactions on your own server and search its database locally but that would require the app to ask for the user's Apple ID so the app could update the subscription state whenever it launches as it can check for IAP of the ID associated with the device.
However, the user could just type whatever he wanted - and it's unlikely to get this through Apple's app review process.
I am using MKSoreKit https://github.com/MugunthKumar/MKStoreKit for auto-renew subscriptions.but it is in objective c you can check the library code for solution.I am using it in my code and it is working fine.
using below method you can easily check subscription status..
if([MKStoreManager isProductPurchased:productIdentifier]) {
//unlock it
}
It gets the apple id from device and I think that is user specific

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Our authentication with the server uses one-time-use bearer tokens. So for every request made I have to store the new token sent down with that request.
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Is this possible with Alamofire?
If so, please could you point me in the right direction.
Thanks
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I created a new saveAuth() block like so...
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