[@useautumn/convex] Cannot use autumn.track within a Workflow

[dantman]

The documentation says to use autumn.track to track usage.

await autumn.track(ctx, {
  featureId: "messages",
  value: 10,
});

This appears to exclusively use the user identity in ctx to get the customerId.

However Convex also has Durable Workflows. When an action is run from a workflow it does not inherit the user identity the workflow was started with.

As a result attempting to integrate the Autumn component to track usage happening inside of a workflow results in "Uncaught Error: No customer identifier found for Autumn.identify()".

The pattern I have been using with other parts of Convex is to pass the user ID of the user running the workflow as one of the Workflow's arguments. But this does not work with autumn.track as I cannot override the customerId.

[SirTenzin]

Hello @dantman,

This a common constraint some of our users find with the Convex Component, as there are a few limitations to them. In this case, we suggest you use the normal Autumn API SDK autumn-js instead of the Autumn component.

Sorry for the late reply, but if you join our Discord, we have much faster response times.

Thanks for using Autumn!

[dantman]

Thanks @SirTenzin, if the intended solution for Convex users is to use the Autumn SDK directly could we have a documented method of getting the Autumn SDK from the Convex component?

I'll switch to using const { autumn: sdk } = await autumn.getAuthParams({ ctx }); for now.