Obtain User Information¶

To obtain basic profile information about the user who generates the access token, it is mandatory to pass the openid scope, when generating the access token.

The following two options are available to obtain the actual user information.

• Decoding the id_token

• Invoking the userinfo endpoint

Decoding the id_token¶

By decoding the id_token, a payload with user information such as email (similar to the one shown below) can be obtained.

{ 
    "sub":"alice",
    "at_hash":"cXhWIvIwRbPgT0ALmazJHQ",
    "acr":"urn:mace:incommon:iap:silver",
    "sub":"[email protected]",
    "aud":[
       "KoNDleSrF3naXWwhavao4bBoMYca"
    ],
    "azp":"KoNDleSrF3naXWwhavao4bBoMYca",
    "organization":"WSO2",
    "iss":"https://172.16.2.111:9443/oauth2/token",
    "exp":1511950413,
    "iat":1511946813,
    "email":"[email protected]"
}

Invoke the userinfo endpoint¶

An access token can be used to invoke the userinfo endpoint to obtain user information as a payload. These claims in the payload are normally represented by a JSON object that contains a collection of name and value pairs for the claims. The format of the curl command is given below.

Request

curl -k -v -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" https://<IS_HOST>:<IS_PORT>/userinfo

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Type: application/json

  {
   "sub": "248289761001",
   "name": "Jane Doe",
   "given_name": "Jane",
   "family_name": "Doe",
   "preferred_username": "j.doe",
   "email": "[email protected]",
  }