hello,

I have a question about converting an implicit user to an explicit user.

When I look at the Users database, it seems the only difference between an implicit user and a facebook logged-in user is the field "_socialIdentity".

Can I manually add the missing variables inside the "_socialIdentity" (the missing variables are "access_token", "id", and "name") to convert the implicit user to an explicit user with facebook log-in?

Using REST API documentation, I was able to test following things:

• create an implicit user
• add _socialIdentity, edit username/first_name/_last_name with a PUT request
• facebook login for this user

Regards,

Wani

Kinvey Support

Thank you for the reply

But there's something that I don't understand about your explanation.

you mean you did the following steps?

1. created an implicit user

2. added _socialIdentity, and then edited username/first_name/_last_name attributes with a PUT request, but not the access_token, id, and name attributes?

3. facebook login for this user should be ready

In step 2, why did you edited username/first_name/last_name attributes, but not the access_token/id/name attributes? I thought the access_token was the most important piece of information that was needed to be passed to the mKinveyClient.user().loginFacebook method.

In the second step, I added _socialIdentity with the three attributes (access_token/id/name). As you said, without access_token, _socialIdentity won't work.

I also edited username as I thought it would make sense to edit the implicit username string that is auto-generated. I added first_name and last_name attributes as it would be good to persist that data in user collection. These are additional attributes that you can ignore.

Regards,

Wani

great!, thank you for the clarifications