CreateTenant with SourceTenantId does not behave as expected

[josedelrio85]

I have created a tenant using Tenant APIs using the Default Tenant as a base, but trying to add customisations, in this case email settings.

POST api/tenant

{
  "tenant": {
    "sourceTenantId": "1477a639-1027-1fdb-b6cc-f19a162865a9",
    "name": "foo",
    "issuer":"foobar.com",
    "emailConfiguration":{
      "defaultFromEmail":"[email protected]",
      "defaultFromName":"FooBar",
      "host":"smtp.foobar.com",
      "implicitEmailVerificationAllowed":false,
      "password":"password",
      "port":465,
      "security":"SSL",
      "username":"foobar"
    },
    "passwordEncryptionConfiguration":{
      "encryptionScheme":"bcrypt",
      "encryptionSchemeFactor":6
    }
  }
}

The result is satisfactory, as I get the new Tenant with the default configuration plus the customisations specified in the request.

On the other hand, when using the CreateTenant method of the client, if I specify in the SourceTenantId property the identifier of the base Tenant, the resulting Tenant does not have the custom properties.

func (h *Handler) CreateTenant(name string) (*fusionauth.TenantResponse, *fusionauth.Errors, error) {
	tr := fusionauth.TenantRequest{
                // if this property is uncommented, the result is the configuration of DefaultTenant
		// SourceTenantId: "1477a639-1027-1fdb-b6cc-f19a162865a9",
		Tenant: fusionauth.Tenant{
			Name:   name,
			Issuer: "udrafter.com",
			EmailConfiguration: fusionauth.EmailConfiguration{
				DefaultFromEmail:                 "[email protected]",
				DefaultFromName:                  "foobar",
				Host:                             "smt.foobar.com",
				ImplicitEmailVerificationAllowed: false,
				Password:                         "password",
				Port:                             465,
				Security:                         "SSL",
				Username:                         "foobar",
			},
			PasswordEncryptionConfiguration: fusionauth.PasswordEncryptionConfiguration{
				EncryptionScheme:       "bcrypt",
				EncryptionSchemeFactor: 6,
			},
		},
	}
	r, faerrors, err := h.FusionAuth.CreateTenant("", tr)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, faerrors, err
	}
	return r, faerrors, nil
}

I understand that this behaviour does not correspond to the behaviour obtained using Tenant APIs and to what is discussed in this section of the documentation:

sourceTenantId [UUID] OPTIONAL AVAILABLE SINCE 1.14.0
The optional Id of an existing Tenant to make a copy of. A unique tenant.name is required. If present, the tenant.id value will used for the new Tenant. All other values will be copied from the source Tenant to the new Tenant.

[mooreds]

@josedelrio85 hmmm. So re-reading the issue, it appears that the client and the tenant API have different behavior when additional fields are added to a sourceTenantId call.

Is that correct?

One workaround is to create the tenant in two steps. Will that not work for you for some reason?

[josedelrio85]

@mooreds Yes, the behaviour differs between a direct API call and the use of the library.

From my point of view, and following the indication in the documentation, I understand that the behaviour of the library function should be corrected.

I really opened the issue to comment on this difference so that you would be aware of it.