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updateOrganizationMembershipMetadata()

Update the metadata attributes of an OrganizationMembership by merging existing values with the provided parameters. Metadata values will be updated via a "deep" merge - "deep" means that any nested JSON objects will be merged as well. You can remove metadata keys at any level by setting their value to null.

function updateOrganizationMembershipMetadata(
  params: UpdateOrganizationMembershipMetadataParams,
): Promise<OrganizationMembership>
  • Name
    organizationId
    Type
    string
    Description

    The ID of the organization this membership belongs to.

  • Name
    userId
    Type
    string
    Description

    The ID of the user that this membership belongs to.

  • Name
    publicMetadata?
    Type
    {[string]: any}
    Description

    Metadata that can be read from both the Frontend API and Backend API, but can be set only from the Backend API .

  • Name
    privateMetadata?
    Type
    {[string]: any}
    Description

    Metadata that is only visible to your Backend API.

Example

In the following example, you can see that the returned OrganizationMembership object has its publicMetadata property updated with the new metadata provided.

const organizationId = 'org_123'

const userId = 'user_123'

const response = await clerkClient.organizations.updateOrganizationMembershipMetadata({
  organizationId,
  userId,
  publicMetadata: {
    example: 'this value is updated!',
  },
})

console.log(response)
/*
_OrganizationMembership {
  id: 'orgmem_213',
  role: 'org:admin',
  publicMetadata: { example: 'this value is updated!' },
  privateMetadata: {},
  createdAt: 1702488558867,
  updatedAt: 1707231338278,
  organization: _Organization {
    id: 'org_123',
    name: 'test',
    slug: 'test',
    imageUrl: 'https://img.clerk.com/eyJ...',
    hasImage: false,
    createdBy: 'user_123',
    createdAt: 1702488558853,
    updatedAt: 1707231200655,
    publicMetadata: { example: 'metadata' },
    privateMetadata: {},
    maxAllowedMemberships: 3,
    adminDeleteEnabled: true,
    members_count: undefined
  },
  publicUserData: _OrganizationMembershipPublicUserData {
    identifier: 'alexis@clerk.dev',
    firstName: 'Alexis',
    lastName: 'Aguilar',
    imageUrl: 'https://img.clerk.com/eyJ...',
    hasImage: true,
    userId: 'user_123'
  }
}
*/

Backend API (BAPI) endpoint

This method in the SDK is a wrapper around the BAPI endpoint PATCH/organizations/{organization_id}/memberships/{user_id}/metadata. See the BAPI reference for more information.

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