Autogenerate User with Kinvey

Question

Using Kinvey is there a way to autogenerate users (like in this document: http://devcenter.kinvey.com/ios/guides/users#autogenerated) but for REST or AngularJS?

Answer 1

Autogenerate users is basically a signup with email, which ends up creating a random username and password.

It is possible to do with any of Kinvey SDKs as well as with REST:

1. AngularJS

   var promise = $kinvey.User.signup({
     email : '<user-email>'
   });
   promise.then(function(user) {
     alert('Kinvey User signup Success.');
   }, function(err) {
     alert('Kinvey User signup Failed.');
   });
   

2. REST

POST /user/:appKey/ HTTP/1.1
Host: baas.kinvey.com
Authorization: [Basic Auth with app credentials]
Content-Type: application/json
{"email" : "<user-email>"}

The user email is optional if you don't enforce Email verification in user settings of your Kinvey app.

In that case, you can do a POST request with an empty body i.e. {}.

References:

1. http://devcenter.kinvey.com/angular/guides/users#signup
2. http://devcenter.kinvey.com/rest/guides/users#signup