Find User By¶
Description¶
This operation finds a specific user by objectId or by identity in the Users data table. The search by identity is only available in Codeless.
Method¶
Future<BackendlessUser> Backendless.userService.findById(String objectId);
where:
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
objectId |
Unique identifier of a user record to retrieve from the data table. String value or number. Refer to the Data Import topic to learn more about objectId value as the number. |
Return Value¶
The BackendlessUser object containing user data.
Example¶
The example below obtains the user object associated with the following objectId: "4D584E4D-05A3-4AC4-90C7-B80D1584E7AD"
var myUser = await Backendless.userService.findById('4D584E4D-05A3-4AC4-90C7-B80D1584E7AD');
Codeless Reference¶
where:
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
objectId |
Unique identifier of the user object which is used to obtain the user data from the Users data table. |
identity |
A value for a column in the Users table marked as identity. By default the column marked as identity isemail, however, it can be changed to another column in Backendless Console. |
Returns the BackendlessUser object containing user data. The object has the values for all the properties stored in Users data table.
Consider the following record in the Users data table:
The example below finds the user by "alice@yourmail.com" identity and returns the BackendlessUser object containing user data.
The output will look as shown below after the Codeless logic runs:
The example below finds the user by objectId: "4D584E4D-05A3-4AC4-90C7-B80D1584E7AD" and returns the BackendlessUser object containing user data.
The output will look as shown below after the Codeless logic runs:
