fix(auth): make token refresh and session restore work

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What

Token refresh has not worked end to end in the Flask and FastAPI integrations. Found while testing #206 against the Python starter kit: once the access token expired, or the app restarted, users were silently signed out. Four bugs, all already on main:

• Sessions are lost on every restart, and across workers. _initialize_framework put device_id inside the config dict passed to StorageManager.initialize(), which ignores it, so a random per-process device id was generated. Session data is stored under device:<device_id>:<user_id>, so after a restart (or on a different worker) the SDK looked under a new key and treated the user as signed out. It is now passed as the device_id argument, as _initialize_null_framework already does, giving a stable device:flask: / device:fastapi: namespace.
• A successful refresh blocks forever. TokenManager.get_access_token() holds self.lock while refresh_access_token() calls set_tokens(), which takes the same non-reentrant lock again. The lock is now an RLock.
• Refreshed tokens are never saved, and never picked up by other workers. They only updated the in-memory TokenManager, so a restarted process restored the old, already-used refresh token. UserSession now saves the session after each refresh (via a new TokenManager.on_tokens_refreshed hook, called from refresh_access_token() so direct callers of that public method persist the rotated refresh token too). Kinde rotates refresh tokens on each use, and each worker caches the session in memory, so before refreshing an expired access token the TokenManager now reads the saved tokens (via load_persisted_tokens): if another worker has already refreshed, it uses those tokens; otherwise it refreshes with the newest saved refresh token. If saving after a refresh fails, the refreshed tokens are kept, get_access_token() raises the new KindeTokenPersistenceException (a KindeTokenException carrying the still-valid access_token), and the save is retried on the next call without refreshing again. is_authenticated() treats that exception as authenticated, so a storage failure doesn't sign out a user whose tokens are valid.
• Refresh failures are silent. is_authenticated() swallowed every exception. A failed refresh now logs the HTTP status and OAuth error code (Token refresh failed: HTTP 400 (invalid_grant)), and is_authenticated() logs why it returned False. No token values are logged.

Also fixes the same double-lock in StorageManager.reset(), which calls initialize() while holding the class lock and blocked forever (the new tests use it). get_device_id() had the same latent pattern.

Tests

New testv2/testv2_auth/test_token_refresh.py (10 tests): refresh doesn't block, refreshed tokens are persisted and restored after a simulated restart, a direct refresh_access_token() call persists the rotated tokens, each refresh saves exactly once, a worker uses tokens another worker already refreshed, a worker refreshes with the newest saved refresh token, a failed save keeps the tokens, raises, and is retried without refreshing again, the user stays authenticated when the save fails, a rejected refresh is logged without token values, and a framework session is found after a simulated process restart. The storage fake copies values on write and read, like a serialising session store, so the persistence test fails if the save hook is disabled; the two worker tests fail if reading the saved tokens is disabled.

• pytest testv2: 454 passed, 3 skipped (main: 444 passed, 3 skipped). No existing tests changed.
• Merges cleanly with fix: stop leaking secrets through logs and session storage #206 and fix(auth): require OAuth callback state and validate ID token nonce #209 in either order; all three together: 484 passed, 3 skipped. The only conflict is the existing fix: stop leaking secrets through logs and session storage #206/fix(auth): require OAuth callback state and validate ID token nonce #209 one in handle_redirect.

Manual test (Python starter kit)

Kinde only issues a refresh token when the offline scope is requested, which neither the SDK default nor the starter kit does, so the test app must request it.

1. Set the app's access token expiry to 60 seconds in Kinde, and request openid profile email offline at login.
2. Sign in, note the access token on /details.
3. Restart the app. Before this change: signed out immediately. After: still signed in.
4. Wait over 60 seconds and reload /details. Before: signed out (or the request hangs if Kinde accepts the refresh). After: still signed in, with a new access token.

Behaviour changes for integrators

• The session storage key changes from device:<random-uuid>:<user_id> to device:<framework>:<user_id>. Sessions created before upgrading aren't found, but those were already lost on every restart, including the deploy's own.
• get_access_token() and refresh_access_token() can raise KindeTokenPersistenceException when refreshed tokens can't be saved; callers that catch it can use its access_token.
• New log lines under kinde_sdk.auth.token_manager (WARNING, on refresh or save failure) and kinde_sdk.auth.user_session (INFO/WARNING, when is_authenticated() returns False for an existing session).

Not in this PR

• Refreshes aren't coordinated across processes. Two workers refreshing the same session at the same moment both use the same refresh token; this relies on Kinde's short overlap period after rotation, during which both the previous and new refresh token are valid. Preventing it entirely needs a shared lock (e.g. Redis), which the SDK doesn't have.

• The SDK's default scope doesn't include offline, and the framework /login routes don't accept a scope, so the refresh path is only reached by apps that request offline themselves.

• StorageManager.initialize() still writes _device_id into storage at startup, outside a request, which logs No request found in context for framework storage.

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Walkthrough

OAuth initialization now passes the framework name as the device ID. Token refresh can adopt newer persisted tokens, logs refresh failures, and saves the session after a successful refresh. Storage locking and authentication failure logging are also updated. Tests cover refresh behavior and session recovery after restart.

Changes

OAuth token refresh and session persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Framework initialization and storage locking kinde_sdk/auth/oauth.py, kinde_sdk/core/storage/storage_manager.py	OAuth initialization passes the framework name through the device_id argument. StorageManager uses a reentrant lock.
Token refresh and persisted-token adoption kinde_sdk/auth/token_manager.py	TokenManager checks for newer persisted tokens before refreshing. It logs refresh failures and calls the optional persistence callback after a successful refresh.
Session storage binding and refresh validation kinde_sdk/auth/user_session.py, testv2/testv2_auth/test_token_refresh.py	UserSession binds token managers to session storage and logs authentication failures. Tests cover token persistence, refresh behavior, logging, and recovery after restart.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TokenManager
  participant UserSession
  participant SessionStore
  TokenManager->>UserSession: Request persisted tokens before refresh
  UserSession->>SessionStore: Load session data
  SessionStore-->>UserSession: Return saved tokens
  UserSession-->>TokenManager: Provide persisted tokens
  TokenManager->>UserSession: Invoke save callback after refresh
  UserSession->>SessionStore: Save session data

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Merge Risk

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fb6e5

Token refresh and session restore are improved. However, concurrent workers, failed saves, or direct refresh calls can still leave stored sessions holding an invalidated refresh token, which can force users to sign in again. Resolve these issues or explicitly accept them before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fb6e5

The changes improve refresh and restart recovery, but shared-worker session cleanup is not coordinated with refresh persistence. Depending on the storage configuration, another worker can recreate a logged-out session record, and logging out one user can delete other persisted sessions in the shared namespace.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: A worker retaining an in-memory session can recreate its persisted record after another worker logs out. The new refresh callback writes without checking a logout generation or tombstone, and restoration accepts the recreated record. This newly extends surviving worker state into durable recovery; continued authenticated access depends on token validity and framework identity handling.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: For a backend shared across workers that supports prefix cleanup, one user's logout deletes every persisted record under the stable framework namespace. Prefix-wide cleanup predates this PR, but replacing process-specific namespaces with a common framework name expands its failure-containment scope across workers. Backend-level request or session isolation may limit that exposure.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — In a shared backend, the maximum demonstrated cleanup scope is every record matching the current device:framework-name: prefix, not just the logging-out user. No privileged operation beyond that user's logout is required. Whether this spans multiple browsers or applications depends on isolation supplied by the external adapter.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A previously authenticated request on a surviving worker can complete refresh and save after logout clears shared storage, recreating a restorable credential record. Same-instance deletion blocks a later save from that instance, and effective provider revocation may prevent usable credentials. Thus durable resurrection is supported conditionally, but an end-to-end post-logout access bypass is not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Persisted credentials become authoritative during expired-token retrieval through a user-ID-derived key and an expiry comparison. The loader does not compare client or issuer context with persisted user_info. User-ID-only TokenManager singleton ownership predates this PR; without evidence of shared application contexts or attacker-controlled storage, that existing limitation is not treated as a newly introduced cross-tenant vulnerability.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Rejected refresh requests do not invoke the save callback. Successful refresh updates memory before persistence, and save exceptions are logged and ignored. This improves the previous absence of refresh persistence but remains best-effort across interruption or backend failure. Per-manager locking does not coordinate independent workers' writes or logout decisions.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define shared session-generation and conditional-write semantics so logout invalidates outstanding refresh writers and stale writes cannot recreate a deleted session. Separate user-session deletion from whole-device cleanup, and make the application, issuer, and browser isolation expected from each storage adapter explicit.

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Review comments at @kinde_sdk/auth/oauth.py:
- Line 127: Update the cached-session refresh flow around
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🟠 Major · Persist tokens when refresh_access_token() is called directly. · token_manager.py:146

kinde_sdk/auth/token_manager.py:146
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Persist tokens when refresh_access_token() is called directly.

This callback runs only through get_access_token(). A caller that invokes the public refresh_access_token() method receives rotated tokens, but the saved session retains the old refresh token. A restart can therefore restore an unusable session. Move the persistence callback into the successful refresh path and avoid invoking it twice through get_access_token().

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Review comment at @kinde_sdk/auth/token_manager.py at line 146:
Move the on_tokens_refreshed callback into the successful refresh path in
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@coderabbitai Fixed the outside-diff finding on token_manager.py:146 in fb1f1e6: saving the refreshed tokens now happens in refresh_access_token(), right after set_tokens(), so direct callers of that public method persist the rotated refresh token too. It's removed from get_access_token(), so each refresh saves exactly once, and a failed save is still retried on the next get_access_token() call. Added tests for a direct refresh_access_token() call and for one save per refresh.

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@KomanRudden Thanks for the fix. Code inspection confirms that refresh_access_token() now saves the rotated tokens after set_tokens(). get_access_token() no longer duplicates that save and retains the failed-save retry path.

The regression tests cover direct refresh calls and one save per refresh. I did not run the tests. This addresses the outside-diff finding.

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