Validate user data before creation via API

lubos-h

Hello all, please I am creating user accounts via API, works perfectly fine but wondering if there is way to validate the user data via API as well without registering the user (no commit). Thank you for any reply.

clarkwinkelmann

lubos-h what are you trying to build ?

If you send invalid data, a validation error will be thrown with details.

If you want to validate data in the same manner in another app, you can copy the Laravel Validation rules for the user model.

Basically there's just one regex for usernames and one length requirement for passwords.

lubos-h

clarkwinkelmann hi, thanks for quick reply, well my story is during user registration on my website, want to check if the user email is already used in Flarum, the api/users return user info by user id or name, but not by user email so I was thinking if I could use any available user registration validation API to test if the user email is already in use, before I even try to register the user with this email.

clarkwinkelmann

lubos-h there's an email: gambit accessible to users with the "edit users" permission https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/master/src/User/Search/Gambit/EmailGambit.php

You can use that to perform a search query to see if any user exists with that email. If you perform that request with an API Key and as an admin, you'll have access to the search gambit.