authorizationStatusFor has incorrect return type about react-native-healthkit

[bohomi]

I've spent some time trying to get my head around this, perhaps it helps. The docs for authorizationStatusFor in this repo might not be fully accurate as it should return a HKAuthorizationStatus (ie. notDetermined, sharingDenied or sharingAuthorized) which is never actually used in the repo past the definition. However, I found that in my case authorizationStatusFor returns the right value.

From the docs it seems that Apple doesn't allow to see if a user has denied a READ permission so perhaps in your case you are looking at a read permission?

In my example I am requesting WRITE permission only for mindful minutes and I can see that authorizationStatusFor returns 0, 1 or 2 according to the Enum HKAuthorizationStatus in the Apple doc.

 const [
    status, // this is of type `HKAuthorizationRequestStatus` (ie. unknown, shouldRequest, unnecessary)
    requestAuthorization,
  ] = HealthKit.useHealthkitAuthorization(
    [], 
    [HKCategoryTypeIdentifier.mindfulSession], // only asking for WRITE permission
  );
  
const authorisationStatus = await HealthKit.authorizationStatusFor(
    HKCategoryTypeIdentifier.mindfulSession,
); // this will be of type HKAuthorizationStatus (ie. notDetermined, sharingDenied or sharingAuthorized)

[josh-]

Opened #64 which should resolve this 🙂