Users

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Before you begin

Register a QuickBlox account. This is a matter of a few minutes and you will be able to use this account to build your apps.
Configure QuickBlox SDK for your app. Check out Setup page for more details.
Create a user session to be able to use QuickBlox functionality. See Authentication page to learn how to do it.

Create user

It’s recommended to manage user creation at your backend for production. To learn more you can refer to QuickBlox API documentation.

For POCs/MVPs or during development you may want to create users on the fly, you can use create() method.

Create a user using the code snippet below. Only login (or email) and password are required. Other fields are optional.

JavaScript

var params = {
  login: login,
  password: "someSecret",
  full_name: "QuickBlox Test"
};

QB.users.create(params, function(error, result) {
  if (error) {
    done.fail("Create user error: " + JSON.stringify(error));
  } else {
  }
});

Security & Privacy

It’s recommended to disable permission to create users with application session on production apps once user creation is implemented on your backend.

Email, full name, facebookId and phone number are PII, configure session permissions according to your privacy requirements.

Retrieve users

Get a list of users using the listUsers() method. The code snippet below shows how to get a list of users created between the two given dates, sorted in ascending order, with 50 users on the page.

JavaScript

var params = {
  filter: {
    field: "created_at",
    param: 'between',
    value: '2021-01-01, 2021-05-06'
  },
  order: {
    field: 'created_at',
    sort: 'asc'
  },
  page: 1,
  per_page: 50
};

QB.users.listUsers(params, function(error, result){

});

If you want to retrieve only users updated after some specific date time, you can use operators. This is useful if you cache users somehow and do not want to obtain the whole list of your users on every app start. Thus, you can use search and sort operators to list users on the page so that it is easier to see specific users.

If you want to get a paginated list of users from the server, you can set the following fields of the filter:

Field	Required	Description
page	no	Number of pages with results to be returned.
per page	no	Number of records to return in one page.

Search operators

You can use search operators to get more specific search results. The request below will return users by IDs.

JavaScript

var params = {filter: { field: 'id', param: 'in', value: [22,33] }};

QB.users.listUsers(params, function(error, result) {

});

Here are the search operators you can use to search for the exact data that you need.

Search operators	Applicable to types	Applicable to fields	Description
lt	number, string, date	id, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Less Than operator.
gt	number, string, date	id, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Greater Than operator.
gte	number, string, date	id, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Greater Than or Equal to operator.
le	number, string, date	id, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Less or Equal to operator
eq	number, string, date	id, full_name, email, login, phone, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Equal to operator.
ne	number, string, date	id, full_name, email, login, phone, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Not Equal to operator.
between	number, string, date	id, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	Contained between values operator.
in	number, string, date	id, full_name, email, login, phone, created_at, updated_at, last_request_at, external_user_id, facebook_id	IN array operator.

Sort operators

You can use sort operators to order the search results. The request below will return users by the created_at field sorted in descending order.

JavaScript

var params = {
  filter: {
    field: "created_at",
    param: 'between',
    value: '2021-01-01, 2021-05-06'
  },
  order: {
    field: 'created_at',
    sort: 'desc'
  },
};

QB.users.listUsers(params, function(error, result){

});

Here are the sort operators you can use to order the search results.

Sort operator	Applicable to types	Applicable to fields	Description
asc	All types	id, full_name, email, login, phone, website, created_at, updated_at,last_request_at, external_user_id	Search results will be sorted in ascending order by the specified field.
desc	All types	id, full_name, email, login, phone, website, created_at, updated_at,last_request_at, external_user_id	Search results will be sorted in descending order by the specified field.

Retrieve users by ID

To get a list of users by ID for a current account, use the following code snippet.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {filter: { field: 'id', param: 'in', value: [22,33] }};

QB.users.listUsers(searchParams, function(error, result) {

});

To get a list of users by login for a current account, use the following code snippet.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {login: "marvin18"};

QB.users.get(searchParams, function(error, user) {

});

Retrieve user by email

To get a list of users by email for a current account, use the following code snippet.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {email: "[[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)"};

QB.users.get(searchParams, function(error, user) {

});

Retrieve users by full name

To get a list of users by full name for a current account, use the following code snippet. Search requires min 3 characters.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {
  full_name: "Marvin Samuel", //substring search
  order: {
    field: 'updated_at',
    sort: 'desc'
  },
  page: 1,
  per_page: 50
};

QB.users.get(searchParams, function(error, result) {

});

Retrieve users by phone number

To get a list of users by phone number for a current account, use the following code snippet.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {phone: "44678162873"};

QB.users.get(searchParams, function(error, result) {

});

Retrieve user by external user ID

If you have your own database with users (we call these databases as “external databases”), you can use External User ID (ExternalID field) in QBUser model to link users from QuickBlox with users from your external database.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {external_user_id: "675373912"};

QB.users.get(searchParams, function(error, user) {

});

Retrieve users by tags

To get a list of users by tags for a current account, use the following code snippet.

JavaScript

var searchParams = {tags: ["apple"]};

QB.users.get(searchParams, function(error, result) {

});

Delete user

A user can delete himself from the platform.

JavaScript

var userId = 1;
QB.users.delete(userId, function(error, result) {

});

Reset user password

It’s possible to reset a password via email.

JavaScript

QB.users.resetPassword("[[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)", function(error) {

});

Make sure to enable the email confirmation. This functionality allows application users to confirm their emails. If a user doesn’t confirm the email, the emails won’t be sent to this user. As a result, a password reset functionality won’t work. To enable the email confirmation, proceed as follows:

Go to the Dashboard => YOUR_APP => Users => Settings => User registration confirmation and check the box.
Click the Save button.

A password reset functionality is available for the Enterprise plan. Contact the sales team for more details.

Update user

Update a user profile by calling the updateUser() method. If you want to change your password, you need to provide 2 parameters: password and old_password. As a result, the updated user entity will be returned.

You can update any other field of the user using the update() method. Thus, the snippet below shows how to update a tag_list and custom_data fields.

JavaScript

var userId = 1,
custom_data = JSON.stringify({
  name: 'John',
  age: 31,
  city: 'New York'
}),

updatedUserProfile = {
  tag_list: 'tagOne,tagTwo',
  custom_data
};

QB.users.update(userId, updatedUserProfile, function(error, user) {});

Field	Required	Description
tag_list	no	User tags. An array of Strings. There are no spaces in the tag format. For example, the “tagOne” format is correct while the “tag one” format is incorrect. The maximum number of tags is 10. If more than 10 tags are provided, an error is returned: tag list should contain maximum 10 tags.
custom_data	no	User custom data. Should be a String. You can convert any data types to String, or example, JSON, XML, etc.

Set user avatar

To set a user avatar, just upload a file to the QuickBlox cloud storage and connect it to the user.

To upload the file to the QuickBlox cloud storage, call the createAndUpload() method. Now that the file is uploaded, get the ID of the uploaded file.

To connect the file to the user, set the ID of the uploaded file to the blob_id field of the user and call the update() method. As a result, the user avatar gets updated.

JavaScript

// for example, a file from HTML form input field
var inputFile = $("input[type=file]")[0].files[0];

var fileParams = {
  name: inputFile.name,
  file: inputFile,
  type: inputFile.type,
  size: inputFile.size,
  public: false,
};

QB.content.createAndUpload(fileParams, function(error, result) {
  if (error) {
  } else {
    var userId = 1;
    var updatedUserProfile = {
      blob_id: result.id
    };

    QB.users.update(userId, updatedUserProfile, function(error, user) {});
  }
});

Pass the following arguments to the update() method.

Argument	Required	Description
userId	yes	User ID.
updatedUserProfile	yes	Specifies the updatedUserProfile fields that should be set.
function	yes	Specifies a callback function that accepts an error and updated user entity.

Get user avatar

Now, other users can get access to your avatar by using the code snippet below. As a result, you will receive a private URL in the response. See this section to learn more about file URLs.

JavaScript

var fileId = someUser.blob_id;
QB.content.getInfo(fileId, function(error, result) {
  if (error) {
    done.fail("Get file information by ID error: " + JSON.stringify(error));
  } else {
    var fileUID = result.blob.uid;

		var fileUrl = QB.content.privateUrl(fileUID);
		var imageHTML = "<img src='" + fileUrl + "' alt='photo'/>";
  }
});

SDKs

iOS

Android

JavaScript

React Native

Flutter

Before you begin

Create user

Retrieve users

Search operators

Sort operators

Retrieve users by ID

Retrieve user by email

Retrieve users by full name

Retrieve users by phone number

Retrieve user by external user ID

Retrieve users by tags

Delete user

Reset user password

Update user

Set user avatar

Get user avatar

SDKs

iOS

Android

JavaScript

React Native

Flutter

​Before you begin

​Create user

​Retrieve users

​Search operators

​Sort operators

​Retrieve users by ID

​Retrieve user by login

​Retrieve user by email

​Retrieve users by full name

​Retrieve users by phone number

​Retrieve user by external user ID

​Retrieve users by tags

​Delete user

​Reset user password

​Update user

​Set user avatar

​Get user avatar

Before you begin

Create user

Retrieve users

Search operators

Sort operators

Retrieve users by ID

Retrieve user by login

Retrieve user by email

Retrieve users by full name

Retrieve users by phone number

Retrieve user by external user ID

Retrieve users by tags

Delete user

Reset user password

Update user

Set user avatar

Get user avatar