During registration via API `is_email_confirmed` and `avatar_url` are not set

DiegoPoveda

Hello, thanks for this great forum you have created.

I am registering user via the API, while the registration works, the fields is_email_confirmed and avatar_url are not being set.

This is the json bein posted

[
'data' => 
	[
	'attributes' => 
		[
		"username" => $new_username,
		 "password" => $new_password, 
		 "email" => $new_email,
		 "avatar_url" => $avatar_url, 
		 "is_email_confirmed" => 1 
		]
	]
]

Does anyone know how to store is_email_confirmed and avatar_url upon registration.

Thanks in advance.

askvortsov

DiegoPoveda Hi! This can't be set through the REST API, otherwise any user could automatically activate their account. You might want to make an extension for this

xkeyC

My guess:

The email needs to be verified by the user.
the avatar needs to be added after the user registers (There should be api to complete the operation).

luceos

Your api token user has to be an admin in order to confirm the mail address, see https://discuss.flarum.org/d/23657-ways-to-disable-email-user-activation-permanently/6

For the avatar_url the token user has to be the same on you're changing the avatar for. So two calls are required.

DiegoPoveda

luceos Thanks a lot for your answer.

Regarding the avatar_url, I am using the token for the same user I am trying to update, but still does not update.

The endpoint I am using is /api/users/{$user_id} with a PATCH method, and the JSON posted is ['data' => ['attributes' => ['avatar_url' => $avatar_url ] ] ].

Could you please confirm this is the correct way to do it. Thanks again.

clarkwinkelmann

You can see the available attributes from the source code https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/v0.1.0-beta.13/src/User/Command/RegisterUserHandler.php

isEmailConfirmed allows to enable an account, but only an admin can provide this attribute.

It's not possible to set an avatar via the register handler. Only exception is social logins. If the social login provides an avatar URL, the image will be downloaded and set as the user avatar.

To set an avatar after the user is created, the best is to take a look at your browser network console while uploading an avatar to see how the request looks. It's a POST to api/users/{id}/avatar with HTTP form data (not json) with the image uploaded as avatar.

It's not possible to set an avatar URL with the API endpoints provided by Flarum, only upload an image.

DiegoPoveda

clarkwinkelmann Thanks a lot!