A second thought is that a API to return the User matching the given username + password would be quite nice, unless there is another way of doing this that I am missing. WDYT?
Colm. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Colm O hEigeartaigh <cohei...@apache.org>wrote: > > Thanks Jan, I have updated it. The "old" API method returns "null" if the > User does not exist, whereas the new API does not seem to return anything. > Would it not be better in both cases to return "false" explicitly? Or are > there backwards compatilbity concerns about changing this? > > Colm. > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Jan Bernhardt <jbernha...@talend.com>wrote: > >> Hi Colm, >> >> The description is wrong, this method returns a boolean. >> >> Best regards. >> Jan >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Colm O hEigeartaigh [mailto:cohei...@apache.org] >> > Sent: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2013 16:48 >> > To: dev@syncope.apache.org >> > Subject: API query >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > From the wiki: >> > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/REST+API+upgrade# >> > RESTAPIupgrade-UserService >> > >> > GET /user/verifyPassword/{username}?password={password} GET >> > /users?username={username}&pwd={password} Returns user if username >> > and password match with an existing account. >> > This method actually returns a boolean not the user, and so the >> description is >> > invalid. >> > >> > Could someone clarify whether the new API is intended to return a >> boolean >> > or the User? >> > >> > Colm. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Colm O hEigeartaigh >> > >> > Talend Community Coder >> > http://coders.talend.com >> > > > > -- > Colm O hEigeartaigh > > Talend Community Coder > http://coders.talend.com > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
