modelcontextprotocol / modelcontextprotocol/kotlin-sdk
Passing info about user/tenant to tools
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Description
Describe the bug
I can not understand how we should get information about the currently logged in user in the MCP request. We have added bearer authentication with OAuth flow for logging in to MCP, but it does not seem to be possible to pass information about the Ktor Principal or the tenant (can derive this from ApplicationCall). It seems to get lost here and I don't understand how to pass on more info here
public suspend fun handlePostMessage(call: ApplicationCall) {
if (!initialized.load()) {
val message = "SSE connection not established"
call.respondText(message, status = HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError)
_onError.invoke(IllegalStateException(message))
}
val body = try {
val ct = call.request.contentType()
if (ct != ContentType.Application.Json) {
error("Unsupported content-type: $ct")
}
call.receiveText()
} catch (e: Exception) {
call.respondText("Invalid message: ${e.message}", status = HttpStatusCode.BadRequest)
_onError.invoke(e)
return
}
try {
handleMessage(body)
} catch (e: Exception) {
call.respondText("Error handling message $body: ${e.message}", status = HttpStatusCode.BadRequest)
return
}
call.respondText("Accepted", status = HttpStatusCode.Accepted)
}
So here we have ApplicationCall, but in handleMessage() it seems like we only have the body.
So we need a way to pass more arbitrary data. In particular:
- Ktor principal
- Any attributes we have on the ApplicationCall
So having full access to ApplicationCall downstream would be great!
Many thanks
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Research direction
Start at handlePostMessage and trace how it calls handleMessage, noting where ApplicationCall context is reduced to only the request body. Define a way for downstream handling to access the Ktor Principal and arbitrary ApplicationCall attributes, and confirm that this context remains available for authenticated MCP requests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- api, authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100