Register a user via api

jorgecsilva

Hi, I'm thinking of using R3 as a backend for a web application. I would need to register users externally, via an api. Could you possibly give me some advice on the best way to do this? Thanks.

gabriel

What do you mean by "users" exactly? It would help if you could describe what you are tring to do.

I am asking, because in R3 there is a difference between logins and records related to users. A login only serves for authentication and is managed inside the admin panel and/or is imported via LDAP. user data is managed inside individual applications and is filled with information relevant to the application.

user data can be created at will and also be connected to logins via APIs by executing backend functions. There is however no supported way to manage logins via API or backend functions.

jorgecsilva

Thanks Gabriel. The idea is to create logins, so that external registration could be possible.

gabriel

Unfortunately, logins can currently only be managed by the R3 system directly. There is no supported way to do this via APIs, functions or similar.

The only way to programmatically generate logins is via LDAP connector currently.

jorgecsilva

Thanks Gabriel.

patidarchat

I am having similar use-case to generate the login programatically, we need to bootstrap new users temporarily and then cleanup those users from the system.

is this something can be done by modifying the DB Directly easily ?

I will try bringing a dummy ldap server

gabriel

Unfortunately, there is currently no easy/supported way of creating logins programmatically. You can create these records on the DB, but you would need to deal with related authentication meta data (PW hashing at the least) and login settings.

Unless we implement a standardized interface, even if you implement this yourself, it could break with the next platform update.