Support AuthClient 0.11.3 maxTimeToLive expiring in 10~ mins

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So I recently upgraded DSCVR to 0.11.3 and Im setting my maxTimeToLive to 7 days. I checked the ic-delegation expiration and it calculates to be about 7 days in the future example:

expiration: "16fd8851c245d84b

If I don’t touch anything on DSCVR and just leave the page open, within about 10 mins the ic-delegation and the ic-delegation will be removed from my local storage and log me out. Sometimes it’s much faster. The only change that I believe has happened is the update to 0.11.3. I don’t see any errors or messages in my console and for testing purposes I only have a single tab open.

I also have not been able to keep up with the updates that have been happening, so I’m curious if there is something I’m doing wrong.

    "@dfinity/agent": "0.11.3",
    "@dfinity/auth-client": "0.11.3",
    "@dfinity/authentication": "0.11.3",
    "@dfinity/candid": "0.11.3",
    "@dfinity/identity": "0.11.3",
    "@dfinity/principal": "0.11.3",

I have my authClient configured as such the one below with the intention to mimic the example as much as possible to assist in debugging.

const authClient = await AuthClient.create();

      authClient.login({
        maxTimeToLive: BigInt(7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000),

        onSuccess: async () => {
          const identity = await authClient.getIdentity();
          //abstractly like this
          agent = new HttpAgent({
            host: "https://boundary.ic0.app/",
            identity: identity,
          });
          await agent.fetchRootKey();
          this.actor = Actor.createActor(idl, {
            agent,
            canisterId: 'aaaa-a',
          });
        },
        onError: () => {
          
        }
      });

Thank you

2

I used to not set any particular maxTimeToLive and literally set a 1 hour duration yesterday. Now that you are saying it, I also noticed it actually expired after few minutes. I also use v0.11.3.

@anon74414410 maxTimeToLive is still the option to use to make session live longer right?

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Looks like there is a IdleManager which logs the user out after 10 mins

This is what it watches

4

You are right. I remember the idle manager has an option (even though I had a look to the PR).

From README:

If you pass no options to the IdleManager, it will log you out after 10 minutes of inactivity by removing the DelegationIdentity from localStorage and then calling window.location.reload().

5

It seems there is also an issue with disableIdle that was reported: Logout happening periodically despite passing `disableIdle: true` in `idleOptions` · Issue #576 · dfinity/agent-js · GitHub

6

Actually disabling the idle checker seems alright. Had my browser open for more than 10min and the session was still on. Can you try following as well @rckprtr?

AuthClient.create({
          idleOptions: {
            disableIdle: true,
            disableDefaultIdleCallback: true
          }
        })...
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I use create authClient in a couple places for different things, I had to disable it on every place I use it.

Rick

8

@rckprtr did it work out for you?

I’ve build a new dapp this weekend and set 7 days expiration and used above settings (cycles.watch/auth.store.ts at main · papyrs/cycles.watch · GitHub) but I actually still get logged out after few minutes …

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Yes, I ran into a snag. I call AuthClient.create() in two different spots in my code. I had to make sure I passed in the idle disable for both of them. I also did not have time to fully test it so I also disable the onIdle call back also.

LMK

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Thanks. Looks like that was my mistake too. I set the options on my sign-in function but forgot to set these for my sync and sign-out functions too. Extracted a utilities to create the auth-client seems to have done the tricks :crossed_fingers: