Set an avatarUrl on account create via API?

VerbMaestro

I would like to be able to set an avatarUrl upon account creation. I use Gravatar and social media avatars on my main Laravel site, and I'm working on single sign on to Flarum. I don't need to upload one to Flarum if I can just provide the URL to the existing one instead. (If I plug it in to the database manually, it works great.)

I tried creating the new user with this:

$data = [
                        'data' => [
                                'attributes' => [
                                        'username' => $user->nickname,
                                        'email' => $user->email,
                                        'password' => $password,
                                        'avatarUrl' => $user->avatar,
                                        'isEmailConfirmed' => !empty($user->email_verified_at),
                                ]
                        ]
                ];
                $result = $this->api->doRequest('post',
                        'users',
                        [ 'json' => $data ]
                );

All the fields work fine except avatarUrl. Any advice?

clarkwinkelmann

VerbMaestro unfortunately that's not available at this time. While we accept a URL being stored in the database, the REST API doesn't allow setting an URL as avatar. You would have to add that endpoint yourself with an extension.

In the past we allowed passing a URL for avatar on user creation and it would download the image and set it as avatar, but this was removed for security reasons.

VerbMaestro

OK, thanks. I might just make a database call in that case.

askvortsov

Also, if you're using service provider initiated SSO, you might be interested in https://discuss.flarum.org/d/22759-flarum-auth-sync, which does the avatar thing for you.