Environment Specific AppSettings not honored.

[rcollette]

Describe the bug?

Environment specific configurations are not honored.

What is expected to happen?

Configuration that is present in appsetting.development.json (and others) should override the settings in appsettings.json

What is the actual behavior?

The SDK is only looking at configuration properties in appsettings.json

Reproduction Steps?

Create an SDK configuration in appsettings.json that has an invalid token

    "okta": {
        "client": {
            "connectionTimeout": 30000,
            "oktaDomain": "https://my.oktapreview.com",
            "token": "xxxxxInvalidToken",
            "requestTimeout": 0,
            "rateLimit": {
                "maxRetries": 4
            }
        }
    },

Create a valid configuration in appsettings.development.json

    "okta": {
        "client": {
            "connectionTimeout": 30000,
            "oktaDomain": "https://syncsort.oktapreview.com",
            "token": "a valid token",
            "requestTimeout": 0,
            "rateLimit": {
                "maxRetries": 4
            }
        }
    },

Use a launchSetttings.json file like:

{
    "$schema": "http://json.schemastore.org/launchsettings.json",
    "iisSettings": {
        "windowsAuthentication": false,
        "anonymousAuthentication": true,
        "iisExpress": {
            "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:45774",
            "sslPort": 44329
        }
    },
    "profiles": {
        "My.Api.Web": {
            "commandName": "Project",
            "launchBrowser": true,
            "launchUrl": "swagger",
            "applicationUrl": "https://localhost:5001;http://localhost:5000",
            "environmentVariables": {
                "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
            }
        }
    }
}

Set the following environment variable ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Development

OKTA api calls will fail with this configuration, when running in local (development) mode.

Additional Information?

No response

.NET Version

7.0.306

SDK Version

6.0.11

OS version

Darwin MacBook-Pro-3.local 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Wed Jul 5 22:22:05 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

[laura-rodriguez]

Hi @rcollette,

Thanks for reporting this. Our team will review it and prioritize it accordingly.

Internal Ref: OKTA-637428

[rcollette]

The root of this issue is that this library is not using the standard .NET configuration apis, and it's really creating a conundrum for me.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/configuration

I should be able to do

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services
            .AddSingleton<IConfiguration>(
                _ => new ConfigurationBuilder()
                    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", true)
                    .AddEnvironmentVariables()
                    .Build())
            .AddSingleton<IUserApi, UserApi>()            
            # My own class that uses IUserApi
            .AddSingleton<IOktaUserClient, OktaUserClient>()
}

and it should just work.

[laura-rodriguez]

@rcollette, we have received a PR to handle this issue. We would love to get your feedback on the proposed changes https://github.com/okta/okta-sdk-dotnet/pull/653

[mmoreno79]

I have a posted a dirty workaround until that PR finally is merged:

https://github.com/okta/okta-sdk-dotnet/issues/646#issuecomment-2025487664