Updating per review comments.

packages/auth/src/db/utils.js

@@ -259,6 +259,24 @@ exports.getAllApps = async (CouchDB, { dev, all, idsOnly } = {}) => {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Utility function for getAllApps but filters to production apps only.
+ */
+exports.getDeployedAppIDs = async CouchDB => {
+  return (await exports.getAllApps(CouchDB, { idsOnly: true })).filter(
+    id => !exports.isDevAppID(id)
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * Utility function for the inverse of above.
+ */
+exports.getDevAppIDs = async CouchDB => {
+  return (await exports.getAllApps(CouchDB, { idsOnly: true })).filter(id =>
+    exports.isDevAppID(id)
+  )
+}
+
 exports.dbExists = async (CouchDB, dbName) => {
   let exists = false
   try {

packages/server/src/api/controllers/user.js

@@ -8,11 +8,7 @@ const { getGlobalUsers, getRawGlobalUser } = require("../../utilities/global")
 const { getFullUser } = require("../../utilities/users")
 const { isEqual } = require("lodash")
 const { BUILTIN_ROLE_IDS } = require("@budibase/auth/roles")
-const {
+const { getDevelopmentAppID, getDeployedAppIDs } = require("@budibase/auth/db")
-  getDevelopmentAppID,
-  getAllApps,
-  isDevAppID,
-} = require("@budibase/auth/db")
 const { doesDatabaseExist } = require("../../utilities")
 const { UserStatus } = require("@budibase/auth/constants")
 
@@ -78,8 +74,12 @@ exports.syncUser = async function (ctx) {
   try {
     user = await getRawGlobalUser(userId)
   } catch (err) {
-    user = {}
+    if (err && err.status === 404) {
-    deleting = true
+      user = {}
+      deleting = true
+    } else {
+      throw err
+    }
   }
   const roles = user.roles
   // remove props which aren't useful to metadata
@@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ exports.syncUser = async function (ctx) {
   let prodAppIds
   // if they are a builder then get all production app IDs
   if ((user.builder && user.builder.global) || deleting) {
-    prodAppIds = (await getAllApps(CouchDB, { idsOnly: true })).filter(
+    prodAppIds = await getDeployedAppIDs(CouchDB)
-      id => !isDevAppID(id)
-    )
   } else {
     prodAppIds = Object.entries(roles)
       .filter(entry => entry[1] !== BUILTIN_ROLE_IDS.PUBLIC)

packages/server/src/api/routes/user.js

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ router
     controller.destroyMetadata
   )
   .post(
-    "/api/users/sync/:id",
+    "/api/users/metadata/sync/:id",
     authorized(PermissionTypes.USER, PermissionLevels.WRITE),
     controller.syncUser
   )

packages/worker/src/utilities/appService.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const { getTenantId, isTenantIdSet } = require("@budibase/auth/tenancy")
 const { checkSlashesInUrl } = require("../utilities")
 const env = require("../environment")
 
-exports.syncUserInApps = async userId => {
+async function makeAppRequest(url, method, body) {
   if (env.isTest()) {
     return
   }
@@ -13,12 +13,19 @@ exports.syncUserInApps = async userId => {
   if (isTenantIdSet()) {
     request.headers[Headers.TENANT_ID] = getTenantId()
   }
-  request.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
+  if (body) {
-  request.body = JSON.stringify({})
+    request.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
-  request.method = "POST"
+    request.body = JSON.stringify(body)
-  const response = await fetch(
+  }
-    checkSlashesInUrl(env.APPS_URL + `/api/users/sync/${userId}`),
+  request.method = method
-    request
+  return fetch(checkSlashesInUrl(env.APPS_URL + url), request)
+}
+
+exports.syncUserInApps = async userId => {
+  const response = await makeAppRequest(
+    `/api/users/metadata/sync/${userId}`,
+    "POST",
+    {}
   )
   if (response.status !== 200) {
     throw "Unable to sync user."