getUserNameFromRequest

SolvaPay SDK

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SolvaPay SDK / auth/src / getUserNameFromRequest

Function: getUserNameFromRequest()

getUserNameFromRequest(request, options?): Promise<string | null>

Defined in: packages/auth/src/next-utils.ts:157

Extract user name from Supabase JWT token in Authorization header.

Parses and validates a Supabase JWT token from the Authorization header and extracts the name from user metadata. Checks multiple possible locations:

• user_metadata.full_name
• user_metadata.name
• name claim

Returns null if the token is missing, invalid, or name is not found.

Parameters

request

Request

Request object (works with NextRequest from next/server)

options?

Configuration options

jwtSecret?

string

Supabase JWT secret (defaults to SUPABASE_JWT_SECRET env var)

Returns

Promise<string | null>

User name string or null if not found

Example

import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server';
import { getUserNameFromRequest } from '@solvapay/auth';

export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
  const name = await getUserNameFromRequest(request);
  
  return NextResponse.json({ name: name || 'Guest' });
}

See

getUserEmailFromRequest for extracting user email

Since

1.0.0