922752 - Add read-only user information route

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Login, defect)

Description

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

Proposal: we should add a read-only information route to the loginapi so that we can build apps that only require the webmaker user name, not their email address.

My use case for this would be the user profile backend, where we already know which user we want to access data from. The problem is that the loginapi requires credentials to access any information. Since the MakeAPI doesn't require credentials, it'd be nice to have the loginapi also not require credentials.

I imagine the API might simply be 

GET /user/:user

which returns (:user=jon):

{
    "user": {
        "id": 358,
        "username": "jon",
        "createdAt": "2013-07-29T20:38:56.000Z",
        "emailHash": "7fc0a83242c7c0d724124a7a0536ee38"
    }
}

Thoughts?

Comment 1

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

When we run into an app that uses this, then we can add it. Not before then!