getAllItems() return value inconsistent on different platforms

[randycoulman]

Thanks for this library! It's been super-helpful for us.

We noticed that the getAllItems() function resolves the promise with different data types on iOS vs Android.

On iOS, we get back an array that contains another array. The inner array has objects with the keys service, key, and value:

[
  [
    { service: 'app', key: 'foo', value: 'bar' },
    { service: 'app', key: 'baz', value: 'quux' }
  ]
]

On Android, we get back an object that just has keys and values:

{
  foo: 'bar',
  baz: 'quux'
}

This inconsistency makes it difficult to use the results in a cross-platform way.

[paulief]

I just want to add to this that getItem(key) returns null on Android and undefined on iOS when no value exists at that key. Pretty minor issue, but just wanted to give a heads up to anyone looking at this.

[ricardofavero]

Thank you for letting us know. We're glad this is being helpful. Right now, we are pretty busy with other projects, but pull requests are always welcome!

[AlanFoster]

@randycoulman I assume the iOS API should align with android's API in this case?

[randycoulman]

I'd probably go the other way and make them both like the iOS API. That way, we'd be adding information to the Android API rather than removing information from the iOS API. Either way, it's going to be a breaking change somewhere.

[YPCrumble]

Thanks for building this library! Experiencing the same issue. If we're fixing the return values, shouldn't the iOS return value be one array rather than a nested array, i.e., return:

[
    { service: 'app', key: 'foo', value: 'bar' },
    { service: 'app', key: 'baz', value: 'quux' }
]

rather than

[
  [
    { service: 'app', key: 'foo', value: 'bar' },
    { service: 'app', key: 'baz', value: 'quux' }
  ]
]

Happy to work on a PR for that if it's helpful. I don't have as much experience with Android React-Native so probably wouldn't be as helpful with reworking that section.

[randycoulman]

@YPCrumble Yes, I agree with you. I forgot about the nested array in my earlier response.

So, my (non-authoritative) opinion is that we should return an array of objects, where the objects have the service, key, and value keys in it.

[mCodex]

Hello guys, sorry for delaying the answer once again. I'll take a look in android in this week. About iOS, I'm afraid I wouldn't because I don't have macOS available.

[illright]

Moreover, the example in the README is a bit misleading. From looking at it, I expected values to be an array, and have been cracking my head over this.
It would be nice to have an example output for each command, as well as return type, etc.

[mromarreyes]

Has this been resolved?

[SamRaymer]

opened a PR for this at #168

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[sasurau4]

I find the issue still exist because v6.0.0-alpha.5 doesn't contain #168. It's still use WritableMap and same for master branch https://github.com/mCodex/react-native-sensitive-info/blob/master/android/src/main/java/dev/mcodex/RNSensitiveInfoModule.java#L241 .
Something wrong happened in release process?

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[mikewoudenberg]

The issue still exists in v6.0.0-alpha.6.

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[hapablap21]

It looks like #214 stepped on this fix from #168
Is there a reason that this was regressed?

[mCodex]

Hi guys 👋

Thanks for the report. There were no reason regressing this issue. In fact, it may have happend when I merged the keystore branch within the master branch, because the keystore branch had many differences in android's files and this fix wasn't included there.

So, we should only open a new PR for that using the master branch again. I may have do this later, however feel free doing that.

[jmalStorm]

I am still having this issue. Wasn't this fixed?

[ingvardm]

const RNSIResponseNormal: SensitiveInfoEntry[] | [SensitiveInfoEntry[]] = APP_FLAGS.isIOS
? RNSIResponse[0]
: RNSIResponse

[m-ueta]

The issue still exists in v6.0.0-alpha.9.

For now, I decided not to use getAllItems.

[Matiassimone]

Hey! its a simple hotFix,
but you can use the follow workaround to solve this problem :

export const getAllSecureItem = async () => {
  try {
    const allSecureItems = await SInfo.getAllItems({
      sharedPreferencesName,
      keychainService,
    });

    return Platform.OS === 'ios'
      ? allSecureItems[0]
      : Object.entries(allSecureItems)?.map((secureItem) => {
          const [key, value] = secureItem;
          return { key: key, value: value };
        });
        
  } catch (e) {
    // Error handler here.
  }
};

This function return a simple Array of Secure Items:
[ { key: "", value: "" }, { key: "", value: "" } ]

@m-ueta @randycoulman