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Claudius
Boss
12 years ago
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How to check if a user is sharing their online status?

I have a custom component that displays some profile information for users including their last visit. I'm using the following REST call for that <#assign dateLastVisited = rest("/users/login/${pag...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    12 years ago

    Hi Claudius,

     

    This preference is stored as a user setting called "profile.show_online_status". You can obtain the value like any other user setting via the REST API:

    http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Settings.name.name#Settings.name.name

     

    So your call would look like:

    /users/id/77/settings/name/profile.show_online_status

     

    Currently, the possible values are:

    • all
    • none
    • friends_only

    These correspond to the options presented in the UI. The "friends_only" one may give you a little trouble, since you'd have to look up whether or not the person viewing is a friend of the person whose online status they're trying to view. You could also take a conservative approach and lump "friends_only" in with "none".

     

    Alternately, you could try using an attempt/recover block in FreeMarker like you mentioned. If it reaches the "recover" block, you could assume that the user doesn't have permission and not show the status.

     

AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle
12 years ago

Hi Claudius,

 

This preference is stored as a user setting called "profile.show_online_status". You can obtain the value like any other user setting via the REST API:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Settings.name.name#Settings.name.name

 

So your call would look like:

/users/id/77/settings/name/profile.show_online_status

 

Currently, the possible values are:

  • all
  • none
  • friends_only

These correspond to the options presented in the UI. The "friends_only" one may give you a little trouble, since you'd have to look up whether or not the person viewing is a friend of the person whose online status they're trying to view. You could also take a conservative approach and lump "friends_only" in with "none".

 

Alternately, you could try using an attempt/recover block in FreeMarker like you mentioned. If it reaches the "recover" block, you could assume that the user doesn't have permission and not show the status.

 

  • nathan's avatar
    nathan
    Executive
    12 years ago

    Is the fact that the 'last logged in' property might not exist in the user object documented anywhere?

     

    Reading this makes me wonder how many other properties that we rely upon might not exist in certain circumstances. It makes it quite difficult to develop and test without knowing which properties are optional. Attempt/recover works fine for dealing with unexpected errors (at the component level), but it isn't feasible to put them around every object property reference.