SignalR Authentication Identity is always null - signalr

Question

I have a WPF app that I am connecting to a SignalR API. However, I am having some issues with my Identity. When I actually call an API Endpoint GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE The Identity is populated correctly (all of the claims are there). When I am connecting to SignalR the Identity Claims are not there.
This is where I register my Jwt token
services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
.AddJwtBearer(options => {
options.TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters {
ValidateIssuer = true,
ValidateAudience = true,
ValidateLifetime = true,
ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
ValidIssuer = configuration["Jwt:Issuer"],
ValidAudience = configuration["Jwt:Audience"],
IssuerSigningKey = new SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(configuration["Jwt:Key"]))
};
options.Authority = configuration["Jwt:Authority"];
options.RequireHttpsMetadata = false;
options.SaveToken = true;
options.Events = new JwtBearerEvents()
{
OnMessageReceived = context =>
{
var accessToken = context.Request.Query["access_token"];
// If the request is for our hub...
var path = context.HttpContext.Request.Path;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(accessToken) &&
(path.StartsWithSegments("/hubs")))
{
// Read the token out of the query string
context.Token = accessToken;
}
return Task.CompletedTask;
},
};
});
and here is where I register my connection
_connection = new HubConnectionBuilder()
.ConfigureLogging(logBuilder =>
{
logBuilder.AddConsole();
logBuilder.AddDebug();
})
.WithUrl($"{url}/hubs", options =>
{
options.AccessTokenProvider = _userService.GetToken;//returns Task.FromResult(userToken)
})
.WithAutomaticReconnect(new[]
{
TimeSpan.Zero,
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10),
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60),
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120)
})
.Build();
My Jwt object in configuration
"jwt":{
"Key":"some random generated key",
"Issuer":"https://localhost:5001/",
"Audience":"https://localhost:5001/",
"Authority":"https://localhost:5001/"
},
Can you please explain what I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I actually found the answer to my own question.
I changed
services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
to
services.AddAuthentication(x =>
{
x.DefaultAuthenticateScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
x.DefaultChallengeScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
});
and that did it!
Hope this helps someone else.