I'm posting here as feedback for the Kinvey iOS dev team asking that the feature below be added as it's a scenario which doesn't appear to be covered by the SDK and to see if someone has a better solution.
Test case
- I have user who has created a new account.
- On Kinvey portal all new user accounts require email verification.
- The user received the email and deleted it without clicking the link to activate the account (or the user never received email for whatever reason).
- When that user tries to log in the an error of .unauthorized is received.
- In the description the error is " This app requires email address verification. Before performing any operations, please verify your email address by clicking the link sent to you upon signup.”
If I try to detect for the case above I have to look for the .unauthorized error. After I get that error I think have to look at the description string to see if it’s a bad username and password problem or if it’s a user who hasn’t clicked the link to authenticate the account.
This is a request to add a new “.unauthenticated” error to make it easy to check for the above condition. Below is a copy of code that I currently use to try and check and validate when the user tries to log in:
@IBAction func login(_ sender: AnyObject) {
if ((emailTextField.text?.characters.count)! == 0) || ((passwordTextField.text?.characters.count)! == 0) {
showAlert(withTitle: "Missing Info", message: "Please enter your email and password.")
} else {
// Convert user name to lowercase since Kinvey is doing case sensitive matching, which we don't want.
let userName = emailTextField.text!.lowercased()
if userName.isValidEmail() == true {
SVProgressHUD.show()
User.login(username: userName, password: passwordTextField.text!) { user, error in
showAlert(withTitle: "Email Invalid", message: "The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Please double check and try again.")
}
}
}
Best Answer
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Pranav J
said
about 1 year ago
Xavier,
An unverified user is an unauthorized user. When "Email Verification" option is enabled, you will not be able to create a new user that does not have an email address. If you don't click on the link of verification, your user will be unverified. There is already a way to detect this. You can check the status of the email verification for a user using following code.
let user = Kinvey.sharedClient.activeUser
let status = user?.metadata?.emailVerification?.status
Also, you can manually initiate email verification process.
An unverified user is an unauthorized user. When "Email Verification" option is enabled, you will not be able to create a new user that does not have an email address. If you don't click on the link of verification, your user will be unverified. There is already a way to detect this. You can check the status of the email verification for a user using following code.
let user = Kinvey.sharedClient.activeUser
let status = user?.metadata?.emailVerification?.status
Also, you can manually initiate email verification process.
Hi Pranav. Thanks for your quick response. I already figured out how to do the check. The issue I was reporting is that one of the returned error values should explicitly state the problem. When you make a call you have a list of possible errors why the user could not log in and you have a switch statement to catch those errors, but this specific issue isn't covered with the returned error types and it's more work to implement. This really is more of a feature request for the team. Thx.
Xavier De Leon
I'm posting here as feedback for the Kinvey iOS dev team asking that the feature below be added as it's a scenario which doesn't appear to be covered by the SDK and to see if someone has a better solution.
Test case
- I have user who has created a new account.
- On Kinvey portal all new user accounts require email verification.
- The user received the email and deleted it without clicking the link to activate the account (or the user never received email for whatever reason).
- When that user tries to log in the an error of .unauthorized is received.
- In the description the error is " This app requires email address verification. Before performing any operations, please verify your email address by clicking the link sent to you upon signup.”
If I try to detect for the case above I have to look for the .unauthorized error. After I get that error I think have to look at the description string to see if it’s a bad username and password problem or if it’s a user who hasn’t clicked the link to authenticate the account.
This is a request to add a new “.unauthenticated” error to make it easy to check for the above condition. Below is a copy of code that I currently use to try and check and validate when the user tries to log in:
@IBAction func login(_ sender: AnyObject) {
if ((emailTextField.text?.characters.count)! == 0) || ((passwordTextField.text?.characters.count)! == 0) {
showAlert(withTitle: "Missing Info", message: "Please enter your email and password.")
} else {
// Convert user name to lowercase since Kinvey is doing case sensitive matching, which we don't want.
let userName = emailTextField.text!.lowercased()
if userName.isValidEmail() == true {
SVProgressHUD.show()
User.login(username: userName, password: passwordTextField.text!) { user, error in
SVProgressHUD.dismiss()
if let user = user as? ScoreBookUser {
self.userInfo = user
self.performSegue(withIdentifier: self.LoginSuccessSegueID, sender: nil)
} else if let kinveyError = error as? Kinvey.Error {
switch kinveyError {
case .methodNotAllowed:
print("methodNotAllowed")
case .dataLinkEntityNotFound:
print("dataLinkEntityNotFound")
case .unknownError:
print("unknownError")
// case .unauthorized
// print("unauthorized")
case .invalidOperation:
print("invalidOperation")
case .objectIdMissing:
print("objectIdMissing")
case .unknownJsonError:
print("unknownJsonError")
case .invalidResponse:
print("invalidResponse")
case .noActiveUser:
print("noActiveUser")
case .requestCancelled:
print("requestCancelled")
case .requestTimeout:
print("requestTimeout")
case .invalidDataStoreType:
print("invalidDataStoreType")
case .userWithoutEmailOrUsername:
print("userWithoutEmailOrUsername")
case .unauthorized(let response, let data, let error, let description):
print("Response: \(response)") //401 statusCode also included here
print("Data: \(String(data: data!, encoding: .utf8))")
print("Error: \(error)")
print("Description: \(description)")
default:
print("default")
print("\(error)")
}
}
}
} else {
showAlert(withTitle: "Email Invalid", message: "The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Please double check and try again.")
}
}
}
Xavier,
An unverified user is an unauthorized user. When "Email Verification" option is enabled, you will not be able to create a new user that does not have an email address. If you don't click on the link of verification, your user will be unverified. There is already a way to detect this. You can check the status of the email verification for a user using following code.
Also, you can manually initiate email verification process.
http://devcenter.kinvey.com/ios/guides/users#emailverificationworkflow
Thanks,
Pranav
Kinvey
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Xavier,
An unverified user is an unauthorized user. When "Email Verification" option is enabled, you will not be able to create a new user that does not have an email address. If you don't click on the link of verification, your user will be unverified. There is already a way to detect this. You can check the status of the email verification for a user using following code.
Also, you can manually initiate email verification process.
http://devcenter.kinvey.com/ios/guides/users#emailverificationworkflow
Thanks,
Pranav
Kinvey
Xavier De Leon
Hi Pranav. Thanks for your quick response. I already figured out how to do the check. The issue I was reporting is that one of the returned error values should explicitly state the problem. When you make a call you have a list of possible errors why the user could not log in and you have a switch statement to catch those errors, but this specific issue isn't covered with the returned error types and it's more work to implement. This really is more of a feature request for the team. Thx.
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