Can't get role data in Clerk middleware

Question

I am trying to set up some access control for a project build with NextJs and Clerk.

The plan is to set up the middleware so that I can control which routes they can access based on their role or organization.

I created a user and two organizations, member in one and Admin in another, no custom roles.

If I have this in the middleware:

    export default clerkMiddleware(async (auth, request) => {
      const resolvedAuth = await auth();
      console.log('auth', resolvedAuth);
    })

I can get the userId in the console log, but orgId and orgRole are undefined.

I also tried using the has({role: 'Admin'}) helper functions for roles or permissions, but it always returns false. I also tried with custom roles.

Everywhere I look it says I should use the authMiddleware(), but its deprecated.

Thanks for any help! also, if you could give me an opinion about this approach to access control that would be helpful.

Answer 1

May be different as my users are only able to be part of one organization, but I am able to get org_name and org_role from sessionClaims this way. Note, I edited my session token in the CLerk Dashboard (Configure -> Sessions -> Customize session token).

export default clerkMiddleware(
      async (auth, req) => {
        // Add your middleware checks
        const { sessionClaims, has, redirectToSignIn } = await auth();
        if (!sessionClaims) {
          return redirectToSignIn();
        }
        
        const {org_name, org_role} = sessionClaims;
    
      },
      { debug: true },
    )