User Registration

Description

The user registration API creates a user account in your application. A registration request must provide a user object as a collection of key/value properties. The collection must contain a property marked as identity as well as the "password" property. The default identity property is "email", however, it can be changed in Backendless Console. Additionally, the "email" property is required if your Backendless application is configured to confirm email addresses for the registered users.

When this API is used to convert a guest user account to a regular registered user, the BackendlessUser argument must have the objectId property set to the value returned from the Guest Login API.

Method

Non-Blocking API

Backendless.UserService.Register( BackendlessUser user, 
                                  AsyncCallback<BackendlessUser>() callback );

Blocking API

public BackendlessUser Backendless.UserService.Register( BackendlessUser user );

where:

Argument	Description
user	An the BackendlessUser object which contains property values for the account registration. String value.
callback	An object which receives either a return value or an error from the server. The return value from the server is the BackendlessUser object with the ID assigned by the server-side.

Return Value

The BackendlessUser object representing registered user. The "objectId" property contains a value assigned by the server. The registration API does not login the user.

{  
  "objectId" : value,  
  "email" : value,  
  "password" : value,  
  ...  
}

Example

The example below registers a new user with an email "alice@yourmail.com" and password "wonderland".

Non-Blocking API

// do not forget to call Backendless.App.Init in the app initialization code
AsyncCallback<BackendlessUser> callback = new AsyncCallback<BackendlessUser>(
       user =>
        {
          System.Console.WriteLine( "User registered. Assigned ID - " + user.ObjectId );
          Dictionary<string, object> props = user.Properties;

          foreach( KeyValuePair<string, object> pair in props )
            System.Console.WriteLine( String.Format( "Property: {0} - {1}", pair.Key, pair.Value ) );
        },
        fault =>
        {
          System.Console.WriteLine( fault.ToString() );
        } );

BackendlessUser newUser = new BackendlessUser();
newUser.SetProperty( "email", "alice@yourmail.com" );
newUser.Password = "wonderland";
Backendless.UserService.Register( newUser, callback );

Blocking API

do not forget to call Backendless.App.Init in the app initialization code

BackendlessUser newUser = new BackendlessUser();
newUser.SetProperty( "email", "alice@yourmail.com" );
newUser.Password = "wonderland";
newUser = Backendless.UserService.Register( newUser );

System.Console.WriteLine( "User registered. Assigned ID - " + user.Id );
Dictionary<string, object> props = user.Properties;

foreach( KeyValuePair<string, object> pair in props )
  System.Console.WriteLine( String.Format( "Property: {0} - {1}", pair.Key, pair.Value ) );

Error Codes

The following errors may occur during User Registration API calls. See the Error Handling section for details on how to retrieve the error code when the server returns an error.

Error Code	Description
2002	Invalid application info (application id or api key)
3009	User registration is disabled for the application
3010	User registration has an unknown property and dynamic properties are disabled for this version of the application
3011	Missing "password" property
3012	Required property is missing
3013	Missing value for the identity property
3014	External registration failed with an error.
3021	General user registration error. Details included with the error message.
3033	User with the same identity already exists
3038	Missing application-id or collection of properties for the registering user
3039	Property "id" cannot be used in the registration call
3040	Email address is in the wrong format
3041	A value for a required property is missing
3043	Duplicate properties in the registration request
8000	Property value exceeds the length limit

Turning Registration Off

User registration can be disabled using the Backendless Console:

1. Login to the console and select the application.
2. Click the Users icon in the vertical icon menu on the left.
3. Click User Registration.

The Registration toggle turns the registration API on or off. When the registration is turned off and a user attempts to register, the system returns error 3009.

Email Confirmations

Backendless can send out an email requesting new registered users to confirm their email address. This feature can be configured in the Backendless Console:

1. Log into the console and select the application.
2. Click the Users icon in the vertical icon menu on the left.
3. Click User Registration.

When email confirmations are enabled (the feature is disabled by default), the "email" user property is required and must contain a value formatted as an email address. When user registers or when you create a user account in the Users database table,  Backendless sends an email to the user with a link they need to click to confirm their email address. To change the text of the email message,  click the Messaging icon in the vertical icon bar in Backendless console and select the EMAILS tab. Use the Confirmation template template.

To resend the confirmation email, use the Resend Email Confirmation API.

When email confirmations are enabled in the app, new registered users will not be able to login until they confirm their email address. For more information see the User Status section of this guide.

Confirmation Link Workflow

When user clicks the confirmation link in the email, Backendless performs various checks and displays a web page informing the user about the status. The web pages can be edited in the Backendless UI Builder. They are available in the FRONTEND section of Backendless Console - make sure to select the system UI Container:

The following pages are available depending on the status of the link and the user account:

Link/User Status	Page to display
Link expired	Page name: confirmation-expired
User is disabled. This may happen if you modified the user's status to DISABLED. This can be done manually in Backendless Console or with the user status management API.	Page name: confirmation-disabled
User's email has been confirmed.	Pagge name: confirmation-confirmed

If you make any changes to the confirmation pages, make sure to re-publish the system UI Container by clicking the Publish UI Container icon:

It is important that the UI Container is published to the system directory located under the web directory:

Codeless Reference

where:

Argument	Description
email	Built-in user property used for the Login, Restore Password and other operations. The email is used as a default identity but it can be changed to any other identifier in the Users data table.
password	Is a string value which is used to authenticate the user(identity).
return registered user object	Optional parameter. When this option is checked, the operation returns the BackendlessUserobject.

Returns the BackendlessUser object representing registered user.

The example below registers a new user "alice@youremail.com" with the password "wonderland" and adds this record to the Users data table. The operation also returns the BackendlessUser object containing user data, since the return registered user object option is checked.

The BackendlessUser object will look as shown below after the Codeless logic runs: