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fix(api): stop the two auth API layers drifting on enterprise sign-up, sendCode and error events - #1026

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Architecture review finding #9: "Two public auth APIs that drift apart." The prebuilt UI calls the original SignIn.create / prepareFirstFactor layer and the samples call the newer Clerk.auth facade. Neither layer is deprecated, and they have drifted apart. This PR fixes the three drift bugs the review named. It is the first PR in a stack:

  1. This PR: drift bug fixes.
  2. refactor(api): route both auth API layers through one implementation per operation #1034: old entry points delegate to one canonical implementation, plus the operation × entry-point matrix.
  3. feat(api): fill the Clerk.auth gaps the prebuilt UI needs #1035: facade additions the prebuilt UI needs before it can move onto Clerk.auth.

Scope

  • Clerk.auth.signUpWithEnterpriseSso ran the sign-in flow. It called SSOService.authenticateWithRedirect, the sign-in redirect, which is also what signInWithEnterpriseSso calls. It now calls authenticateSignUpWithRedirect, the same path SignUp.authenticateWithRedirect(EnterpriseSSO) uses.
  • SignIn.sendCode { email = … } ignored the email (phone too). It sent to whichever email_code factor came first, and to an empty id when there was none. sendResetPasswordCode had the same bug. Both now:
    • send to the factor whose safe_identifier matches the value. Emails match case-insensitively and phone numbers by digits.
    • fall back to the only candidate factor when its identifier is masked or missing. Clerk masks identifiers the user did not type, so a caller who identified by username cannot know the masked form.
    • otherwise fail locally with first_factor_strategy_not_supported and make no request.
    • go through prepareFirstFactor (via the same params), so they now get the same status validation as sendEmailCode / sendPhoneCode.
  • AuthEvent.Error only fired from Clerk.auth.* methods. Decision: both layers report failures the same way. Every public sign-in and sign-up entry point now wraps its body in one helper, Auth.reportingFailures. That covers SignIn / SignUp companion methods, their extension functions (prepareFirstFactor, attemptFirstFactor, sendCode, verifyCode, update, get/reload, …), the public RestoreCredentials.signIn() / BiometricCredentials.signIn(), and the Clerk.auth methods. Exception: the native magic-link facade (startEmailLinkSignIn, handleMagicLinkDeepLink, completeMagicLink) returns NativeMagicLinkError and does not emit AuthEvent.Error.
    • Entry points nest. For example, Clerk.auth.signUpWithGoogleOneTap → SignIn.authenticateWithGoogleOneTap → SignUp.create, and SSOService creates its sign-in through SignIn.create. A coroutine-context marker makes only the outermost call emit, so one failure produces exactly one event.
    • The OAuth callback path (SSOService.completeAuthenticateWithRedirect) runs with reporting turned off. Its result is returned to the suspended authenticateWithRedirect caller, which reports it.
    • Old-layer calls emit on Clerk.auth.events. Clerk.auth.* methods emit on their own Auth instance, which is the same object in production.

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  • Apps that collect Clerk.auth.events will now get AuthEvent.Error for failures from the prebuilt UI and from direct SignIn / SignUp calls, not only from Clerk.auth.*. The emission rule is unchanged: any ClerkResult.Failure emits. The new events include failures the prebuilt UI expects and handles:

    • form_identifier_not_found before the UI falls back to sign-up.
    • an automatic passkey attempt that finds no credential.
    • a user cancelling OAuth.

    Filtering cancellations out of AuthEvent.Error is a separate product decision, and I've left it out of this PR. The prebuilt UI does not react to AuthEvent.Error.

  • signUpWithEnterpriseSso now creates a sign-up. Any caller relying on the old sign-in behaviour should call signInWithEnterpriseSso.

  • sendCode / sendResetPasswordCode now return a failure instead of sending to a different address when the value matches no factor. sendCode also refuses to prepare when the sign-in is not needs_first_factor, the same check sendEmailCode already makes. sendResetPasswordCode is not status-gated, because prepareFirstFactor skips that check for reset strategies. When Clerk only exposes masked identifiers, both pick the masked factor whose visible characters fit the value, and fail rather than guess when that is ambiguous or contradicted.

  • No public signatures change. Auth.emitAuthError went from private to internal.

  • Overlap with in-flight items:

Testing

  • New, each failing before the fix:
    • AuthTest.signUpWithEnterpriseSso starts a sign-up redirect instead of a sign-in.
    • SignInSendCodeTest: 5 of its 6 cases. The masked-fallback case passed before and is a guard.
    • AuthErrorEventsTest: 5 of its 6 cases. The "facade reports once" case is a no-double-emit guard.
  • ./gradlew :source:api:spotlessApply :source:api:detekt :source:api:testDebugUnitTest: all pass.
  • :source:ui is untouched in this PR.

Review follow-ups

The "match masked first factors by their visible characters" and "send SignUp.sendCode to the address the caller names" commits address review feedback (including CodeRabbit's masked-candidate comment):

  • firstFactorFor matches masked identifiers by their visible characters. It no longer picks a sole masked factor that contradicts the requested value (e.g. u***@x.com for other@y.com), and it now finds the right factor when several are masked (e.g. a***@x.com / b***@y.com for bob@y.com).
  • SignUp.sendCode { email / phone } used the value only to pick email or phone, then sent to whatever address the sign-up already had. When the value differs, it now updates the sign-up to it first, and sends nothing if that update fails.
  • RestoreCredentials.signIn() and BiometricCredentials.signIn() report AuthEvent.Error when called directly.
  • New tests: sendCode status check, reset fallback to email_code, phone reset, and the OAuth callback's withoutAuthErrorReporting (verified to fail when the wrapper is removed).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Authentication failures are reported consistently across sign-in, sign-up, verification, credential restoration, and redirect flows, without duplicate error events.
    • Verification codes are sent to the matching email or phone factor. Email matching ignores letter case, phone formatting is supported, and ambiguous masked identifiers are rejected rather than guessed.
    • Password-reset code requests prioritize reset-password options and can use an email-code option when no reset-specific factor is available.
    • Sign-up verification updates to the requested email or phone destination before preparing verification; verification is not prepared if the update fails.
    • Enterprise SSO sign-up follows the sign-up redirect flow.

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Authentication entry points and sign-in and sign-up operations now use coroutine-scoped error reporting. Nested calls do not emit duplicate error events. Sign-in code preparation matches requested email or phone identifiers to factors. Sign-up code requests update a differing destination before preparing verification. Enterprise SSO sign-up uses the sign-up redirect flow.

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Authentication flows

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoped auth error reporting
source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/auth/AuthErrorReporting.kt
A coroutine-scoped wrapper emits an error event for a failure only when no reporting scope is active. A separate wrapper suppresses reporting for nested calls.
Auth entry points
source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/auth/Auth.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/auth/AuthErrorEventsTest.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/auth/AuthTest.kt
Auth sign-in, sign-up, and sign-out entry points use scoped error reporting. Enterprise SSO sign-up calls the sign-up redirect method. Tests check error-event counts and redirect method selection.
Sign-in operations and factor selection
source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/signin/*, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/signin/SignInSendCodeTest.kt
Sign-in operations use scoped error reporting. Code preparation matches email or phone identifiers to factors. Tests cover exact and masked matches, ambiguous matches, unmatched inputs, and invalid sign-in status.
Sign-up operations and redirect completion
source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/signup/*, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/sso/SSOService.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/biometriccredential/BiometricCredentials.kt, source/api/src/main/kotlin/com/clerk/api/restorecredentials/RestoreCredentials.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/sso/SSOServiceCancellationTest.kt, source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/signup/SignUpEmailVerificationStrategyTest.kt
Sign-up operations use scoped error reporting. A differing requested destination is applied before verification preparation. Redirect callback completion suppresses nested reporting. Biometric and restore-credential sign-in also use scoped reporting.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Auth
  participant SignIn
  participant SignInApi
  participant AuthEvents
  Auth->>SignIn: invoke sign-in operation
  SignIn->>SignInApi: send sign-in request
  SignInApi-->>SignIn: return failure
  SignIn-->>Auth: return failure without nested emission
  Auth->>AuthEvents: emit one AuthEvent.Error
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…, sendCode and error events

- Clerk.auth.signUpWithEnterpriseSso ran the sign-in redirect flow. It now
  starts a sign-up redirect, like SignUp.authenticateWithRedirect(EnterpriseSSO).
- SignIn.sendCode { email/phone } and sendResetPasswordCode ignored the value
  and sent to the first factor of that type, or to an empty id. They now send
  to the factor that matches the value, fall back to the only factor when its
  identifier is masked, and fail locally when nothing matches. Both now go
  through prepareFirstFactor, so they get its status checks too.
- AuthEvent.Error fired only from Clerk.auth methods. Every public sign-in and
  sign-up entry point, on Clerk.auth or on SignIn/SignUp, now reports failures
  through one helper. Nested entry points (SSOService creating its sign-in via
  SignIn.create, for example) report once, from the outermost call, and the
  OAuth callback leaves reporting to the awaiting authenticateWithRedirect.
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firstFactorFor accepted the sole masked candidate even when its visible
characters contradicted the requested identifier, and refused an exact
identifier when several candidates were masked. It now picks the masked
factors whose visible characters fit the value, as long as they all
belong to one destination.

Also report AuthEvent.Error from direct RestoreCredentials.signIn and
BiometricCredentials.signIn calls, and pin the OAuth callback's
withoutAuthErrorReporting wrapper with a test.

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source/api/src/test/java/com/clerk/api/sso/SSOServiceCancellationTest.kt (1)

148-174: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the public event for a failed redirect callback.

The new SSOServiceCancellationTest test calls SSOService.authenticateWithPreparedRedirect directly and asserts that the callback emits no event. It does not test event reporting by the public SignIn.authenticateWithRedirect call awaiting that failure. The existing public redirect test fails earlier at SignIn.create. Add a test that completes a public redirect with a failing transfer callback and asserts that the call returns a failure and emits exactly one AuthEvent.Error. A regression limited to reporting the deferred callback result would otherwise go undetected.

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SignUp.sendCode { email / phone } used the value only to choose between
the email and phone strategy, then prepared verification for whatever
address the sign-up already had. When the value differs, it now updates
the sign-up to it first and sends nothing if that update fails.
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