Function User.getUserId() in Cloud endpoint api returns null for a user object that is not null

Question

I have a problem with getting the userid for a cloud endpoint method. I have used oauth2 authentication in my android client and passed the credentials to my service. The be

Answer 1

You're correct that issue 8848 is the same cause. The underlying issue is language-agnostic and affects both runtimes. At the moment you shouldn't expect the user ID field populated in a User object passed in via method argument in Endpoints.

A super suboptimal workaround is to persist the User object to the datastore and read it back. The re-read object will have the user ID included.