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Removes PostgrestClient.setAccessToken(), SupabaseStorageClient.setAccessToken() and FunctionsClient.setAccessToken(). RealtimeClient.setAccessToken() stays.

Nothing in the repository called the three that are gone, but they were not inert either. Despite the name they pinned a token rather than kept one in sync: AuthHttpClient applies the current session token with putIfAbsent, so an Authorization header set through one of these setters took precedence over it, and nothing ever cleared it. The pinned token kept shadowing the session across refreshes and sign-outs for the rest of the client's life. A method named setAccessToken on a client that is otherwise authenticated per request is a poor way to spell that.

The capability survives without them. The header maps are still mutable, so a token can be pinned with supabase.rest.headers['Authorization'] = ... or storage.setHeader(...), passed to a constructor, or scoped to a single call with invoke(headers: ...) / .setHeader(...). What goes away is four inconsistent signatures for the same idea, one of which reads like auth synchronization.

Realtime is the real case for a setter: it holds a live socket and has to push a new token over it rather than attach one per request, so SupabaseClient genuinely calls its setter on auth state changes.

Why

Mirrors supabase/supabase-swift#1233, which removed the equivalent FunctionsClient.setAuth(token:) from supabase-swift in favour of a per-request access token closure. Flutter already resolves the token per request through AuthHttpClient, so only the cleanup half applies here.

The header-clobbering bug that PR also fixed does not exist in this SDK: putIfAbsent means an Authorization passed to a single invoke or query survives the live token. client_test.dart now covers that end to end, since it is the replacement this migration points callers at.

Notes

The three header maps stay mutable. SupabaseClient.headers still rewrites them in place on assignment, and SupabaseStorageClient.setHeader() still mutates its own. Making them unmodifiable is a separate change that has to deal with that setter first.

sdk-compliance.yaml is updated for both affected capabilities:

  • functions.invocation.set_auth_token now points at the constructor and invoke, which are the two ways to supply the header, with a note on the deviation from the reference implementation.
  • client.authentication_integration.cross_client_token_sync now lists RealtimeClient.setAccessToken and SupabaseClient.accessToken, with a note explaining why the other three clients need no setter.

MIGRATION.md also drops a step that had gone stale independently of this change: the v2 deprecation table told readers to replace PostgrestClient.auth() with PostgrestClient.setAuth(), which was renamed earlier in v3 and is now removed outright.

Test plan

  • dart test in postgrest (202), supabase_functions (50) and supabase (143), all passing
  • New test in client_test.dart: a per-request Authorization beats the live session token for both functions and rest. Verified it fails if AuthHttpClient is changed to overwrite instead of putIfAbsent
  • dart analyze clean and dart format -l 80 clean on the four affected packages
  • Capability matrix validated against supabase/sdk: compliance file valid, symbol check reports all new public symbols covered
  • supabase_storage has 21 failures locally from a dirty local stack, identical on clean origin/main; CI runs against a fresh stack

Closes SDK-1521

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  • Breaking Changes

    • Removed setAccessToken() from PostgREST, Storage, and Functions clients.
    • Renamed Realtime’s setAuth() method to setAccessToken().
    • PostgREST authentication now requires an Authorization header.
  • New Features

    • Added chainable setHeader() support for updating Storage client headers.
  • Documentation

    • Added migration guidance for constructor and per-request authorization headers.
    • Clarified authorization requirements for standalone Functions clients and session-based invocations.

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The change removes token setters from PostgREST and Functions, replaces the Storage setter with chainable header updates, and updates authentication tests and migration guidance. Realtime retains setAccessToken().

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Client token API migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Header-based client authentication
packages/postgrest/test/basic_test.dart, packages/supabase_storage/lib/src/storage_client.dart, packages/supabase_functions/test/functions_dart_test.dart, packages/supabase/test/client_test.dart
Storage now provides chainable setHeader. Tests use constructor or per-request headers and register resource cleanup with test teardown.
Migration guidance
MIGRATION.md
The migration guide documents removed token setters, header-based authorization, and the retained Realtime setter. It also corrects the Realtime method rename.
SDK compliance metadata
sdk-compliance.yaml
Functions authorization guidance describes session-token resolution and constructor or per-call headers.

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The change removes unused access-token mutators while preserving per-request and Realtime authentication behavior. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness that one authentication test should dispose the client created during setup to avoid a bounded test-resource leak.

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441-443: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Retain coverage for the replacement Authorization paths.

The changed test only checks X-Client-Info. It does not exercise an Authorization header. The test can pass while constructor authorization or per-invocation authorization is broken.

Add a test that constructs FunctionsClient with Authorization: Bearer foo, invokes a function, and checks the outgoing request header. Also keep a per-invocation override assertion because packages/supabase_functions/lib/src/functions_client.dart merges invocation headers at Line 114-145.

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final client = FunctionsClient(
  '',
  {'Authorization': 'Bearer foo'},
  httpClient: customHttpClient,
);
addTearDown(client.dispose);

await client.invoke('function');

expect(
  customHttpClient.receivedRequests.last.headers['Authorization'],
  'Bearer foo',
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In `@packages/supabase_functions/test/functions_dart_test.dart` around lines 441 -
443, Add coverage around FunctionsClient authorization handling: construct a
FunctionsClient with an Authorization header, invoke a function, and assert the
outgoing request includes it; also assert a per-invocation Authorization header
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- Around line 115-118: Update the auth test’s PostgrestClient reassignment to
dispose the instance created in setUp() before replacing it, or keep the
replacement local and ensure it is disposed during teardown. Preserve disposal
for both client instances.

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In `@packages/supabase_functions/test/functions_dart_test.dart`:
- Around line 441-443: Add coverage around FunctionsClient authorization
handling: construct a FunctionsClient with an Authorization header, invoke a
function, and assert the outgoing request includes it; also assert a
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Pull request overview

Removes obsolete access-token mutators while retaining Realtime’s socket-specific setter.

Changes:

  • Removes setters from PostgREST, Storage, and Functions clients.
  • Updates affected tests and SDK compliance metadata.
  • Adds v3 migration guidance.

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sdk-compliance.yaml Updates authentication capability mappings.
packages/supabase_storage/lib/src/storage_client.dart Removes Storage token setter.
packages/supabase_functions/lib/src/functions_client.dart Removes Functions token setter.
packages/supabase_functions/test/functions_dart_test.dart Updates header tests.
packages/postgrest/lib/src/postgrest.dart Removes PostgREST token setter.
packages/postgrest/test/basic_test.dart Uses constructor-provided authorization.
MIGRATION.md Documents the breaking removals and alternatives.

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I think the origin reason for these methods was to support their individual usages better. So if one does not use the supabase package no auth http client is available. I think but I'm not sure that the headers were modifiable back then as well, and having a dedicated method is easier than having to deal with the exact header semantics.
So I would say there are valid reasons to keep it for individual package use. Especially the postgrest package could be used without supabase and providing an easier authentication mechanism than manipulating headers would be great.

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PostgrestClient.setAccessToken, SupabaseStorageClient.setAccessToken and
FunctionsClient.setAccessToken were never called by SupabaseClient. The
rest, storage and functions clients share an AuthHttpClient that resolves
the current session token on every request, so a token pushed in by hand
was overwritten by the live one anyway.

RealtimeClient.setAccessToken stays. It pushes the token over a live
socket rather than attaching one per request, and SupabaseClient does
call it.
The v1 to v2 deprecation table told readers to replace
PostgrestClient.auth() with PostgrestClient.setAuth(). That method was
renamed to setAccessToken() earlier in v3 and is now removed, so the
step pointed at an API that no longer exists.
They were dead internally, but not inert. AuthHttpClient applies the
session token with putIfAbsent, so a token set through one of these
setters took precedence over it and nothing ever cleared it: the pinned
token kept shadowing the session across refreshes and sign-outs.

Rewrites the migration section accordingly, and adds a test locking in
that a per-request Authorization header wins, which is the replacement
the migration now points callers at.
Respond to each captured request, await both calls, and dispose the
client before closing the server, instead of leaving them in flight.
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@Vinzent03 I was a bit curious of the history of this so I let the clanker dig through it:

I dug through the history, and they were actually added for the composed case rather than for standalone use.

#376 (Feb 2023) was supabase.storage rebuilding the client on every access, so a stored sub-client went stale after sign-out. Your first proposal in that issue was a closure returning the current headers; it got struck through in favour of "identical to how we already handle this for realtime, by adding a setAuth method". supabase/storage-dart#52 says "In preparation for #376", and supabase/supabase-dart#182 wired it up. supabase/supabase-dart#189 and supabase/supabase-dart#192 followed within a month (header bleed between queries, then a query after sign-in using the previous session). #540 (Jul 2023) replaced the whole thing with AuthHttpClient and deleted the six setAuth calls, which is the closure idea from #376. The setters themselves just never got removed.

Independently of that your point still stands though. Standalone users do need token rotation, and constructor headers only cover the static case.

We want to avoid today's shape though, where the method means two different things. Since #540, AuthHttpClient applies the session token with putIfAbsent, so calling setAccessToken on a client obtained from SupabaseClient pins a token that shadows the session permanently, across refreshes and sign-outs.

Good news though is that we're going to do it in the same way as supabase/supabase-swift#1233 just landed: an accessToken callback resolved per request. It handles rotation, and it composes correctly instead of fighting the parent client. (Coming up as a stacked PR very soon)

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Okay interesting, thanks. Didn't remember I added them to begin with, but with a new callback approach this seems to be solved even better!

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Okay interesting, thanks. Didn't remember I added them to begin with, but with a new callback approach this seems to be solved even better!

Hehe yeah, it was a very long time ago, I would never have remembered either. 😄

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> [!NOTE]
> Stacked on #1739. Review that one first; the diff here is only the
last commit.

## Summary

Gives `PostgrestClient`, `SupabaseStorageClient` and `FunctionsClient`
an optional `accessToken` callback, resolved before every request and
sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.

```dart
final functions = FunctionsClient(
  functionsUrl,
  {'apikey': anonKey},
  accessToken: () async => currentJwt,
);
```

## Why

#1739 removes `setAccessToken` from these three clients. Through
`SupabaseClient` nothing is lost, because `AuthHttpClient` already
resolves the session token per request. @Vinzent03 pointed out on that
PR that standalone users of these packages have no such wrapper, and are
left with a static constructor header or mutating the header map by
hand.

That is the gap the setters were filling, and filling badly: they pinned
a value that went stale, which is exactly why they became a footgun once
`AuthHttpClient` landed. A callback resolved per request covers the same
need without that failure mode.

This is the same shape supabase/supabase-swift#1233 gives the Swift
`FunctionsClient`.

## Behaviour

- Resolved before every request, and again for **every retry**, so a
token that rotates between attempts is picked up. Postgrest's retry loop
and storage's upload retry both go through it.
- Returning `null` sends no bearer token.
- A request that already carries an `Authorization` header keeps it, so
`invoke(headers: ...)`, `PostgrestBuilder.setHeader` and
`SupabaseStorageClient.setHeader` all still win over the callback.
- Passing both a constructor `Authorization` header and `accessToken`
asserts, since the header would win on every request and the callback
would never run.

Purely additive: the parameter is optional, and the assert can only fire
on a combination that was not expressible before this PR.

## Implementation

One `AccessTokenClient` in `supabase_common`, wrapping the caller's
transport. All three clients already funnel every request through a
single nullable `Client?`, so wrapping at construction covers every path
including multipart uploads and retries. A null transport still falls
back to a one-off client per request, unchanged.

`SupabaseClient` deliberately does not use this. It wires its
sub-clients through `AuthHttpClient`, which also handles the `apikey`
header and the new-format key rules. Consolidating the two is worth
doing separately (SDK-1523 notes it).

## Test plan

- New `access_token_client_test.dart`: per-request resolution, null
token, per-request header precedence, error propagation
- Per-client tests for all three: resolution on every request,
per-request override winning, and the assert
- `dart test`: `supabase_common` (109), `postgrest` (200),
`supabase_functions` (54), `supabase` (143), all passing
- `dart analyze` clean across `packages/`, `dart format -l 80` clean
- Capability matrix: compliance file valid, symbol check clean (no new
public symbols; `supabase_common` is in `.sdk-parse-ignore` and a
parameter is not a symbol)
- `supabase_storage` shows 21 failures locally from a dirty local stack,
identical on clean `main`; CI runs a fresh stack

Closes SDK-1523
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