Identity is empty after executing identify

[majdanov]

Description

flagsmith.identity is empty after executing flagsmith.identify

await flagsmith.identify(accountId);
console.log(flagsmith.identity); // undefined

if (!flagsmith.identity) { // always true because identity is undefined
  await flagsmith.identify(accountId);
}

Context

I am trying to upgrade flagsmith from 3.24.0 to 9. The problem is reproduced from version 5.0.0 and later.

Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[kyle-ssg]

Hi @majdanov, you should be able to access this via

flagsmith.getContext()?.identity?.identifier

In future, the recommended way to identify will be to use the setContext method. However until then, I think we'll fix this and re-add the flagsmith.identity initialisation for backwards compatibility.

[chris-richmond]

@kyle-ssg the documentation recommends the flagsmith.identify(...) approach. Should I open a different issue for this, or would you mind updating the documentation with the current PR?

https://docs.flagsmith.com/clients/javascript#example-identifying-a-user-after-initialising-the-client

Thanks

[kyle-ssg]

@chris-richmond That's fine, we're going to be discussing internally about how to migrate the documentation towards context. In the meantime we'll be aiming to be fully backwards compatible.