Find a user with v3 API

LightBurn · July 4, 2018, 9:02pm

I’m looking at migrating to the V3 API. Our users purchase a license key from a web store, and a 'bot generates them a key and emails it to them. With the new V3 API, in order to find a license by username or email address, I have to create a user for them. This part is easy.

If a user is a repeat customer, I would like the system to find their existing account by searching the user database for the email address, but I cannot find a search API for users in the documentation. I could list all users until I find them, but that seems like a bad idea. Is this supported, and if not, could it be added relatively easily?

LightBurn · July 5, 2018, 1:39am

I figured out that the “List all users” function can take user name or email address. I was looking for a “find” or “search”, and didn’t realize this would do what I wanted.

adnan-kamili · July 5, 2018, 4:06am

Hi,

If you check out the php key generator sample, it exactly does the same:

github.com

cryptlex/php-license-generator/blob/master/CryptlexApi.php#L14


	private static $access_token;



	// Leave it as such unless you're using the self-hosted version of Cryptlex.

	private static $base_path = "https://api.cryptlex.com/v3";



public static function SetAccessToken($access_token)

	{

		self::$access_token = $access_token;

	}



	public static function CreateUser($body)

	{

		$api_url = self::$base_path . "/users";



    // check whether user exists

    $users = self::GetRequest($api_url."?email=".$body["email"]);

    if (count($users)) {

        // user already exists!

        return $users[0];

    }

		// user not found, creating new user...

LightBurn · July 5, 2018, 4:12am

Yeah, I got this working pretty easily as soon as I figured out I could do that, thanks.

adnan-kamili · July 5, 2018, 4:19am

Just make sure you do lookup on email, as they are guaranteed to be unique. Multiple users can have same names.