Issuer with updating Okta user -- Okta SDK 21 SingtonUser

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We have a way for a user to update their profile – first and last name so forth.

Our company is calling the Okta SDK – a wrapper for the API.
Our code is going to do an update. First it calls the Okta get User.
Then we call the okta Update User but just passing in the UserSingelton Id (should just be the Okta id).

The first time through this works just fine.
The second time through with all the same data, the getUser call fails.

class com.okta.sdk.resource.model.User cannot be cast to class com.okta.sdk.resource.model.UserGetSingleton (com.okta.sdk.resource.model.User and com.okta.sdk.resource.model.UserGetSingleton are in unnamed module of loader ‘app’)

After playing with this more, it seems to be a timing issues. If I try to update the same profile right after, it fails. If I wait 5 mins ? It works.

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Okta, like most large-scale distributed systems, operates on an eventual consistency model. When you call updateUser, the change is initiated, but it might take a short amount of time (milliseconds to seconds, usually) to propagate across all of Okta’s internal systems

When calling getUser immediately after updateUser, the SDK may be querying an Okta endpoint that has not yet fully processed the update. Also, there may be internal caching or object reuse within the SDK itself.

Since it says a cast error mostlikely what was returned was not a singleton but the base user object.

calling getUser again immediately after updateUser, check the return value of your updateUser call. It should contain the updated user profile data if not ? Update is an eventual consistency job.

Try to add some error handling if its java it would look like below.

Object result = client.getUser(userId); // Assuming getUser returns Object or a common superclass
if (result instanceof UserGetSingleton) {
    UserGetSingleton userSingleton = (UserGetSingleton) result;
    // Process userSingleton
} else if (result instanceof User) {
    User baseUser = (User) result;
    // Handle the base User case - maybe log a warning, retry, or extract needed info if possible
    System.out.println("Warning: getUser returned base User type unexpectedly.");
} else {
    // Handle unexpected type
}