I’m trying to use the Dischord API to upload user avatars. I’m testing with Postman because I couldn’t get it working with curl in PHP. With Postman I can see that the POST to the API is actually succeeding, but that the avatar is not assigned to any user. The response shows a user ID of -1, which w…

[صورة] Frank_Bailey: The response shows a user ID of -1, which would seem to indicate that something is going wrong in the background. The parameter api_username specifies the user you are executing the API action as… … in this case you are likely using system where the default ID for this u…

According to http://docs.discourse.org I believe you should afterwards send a PUT /users/{username}/preferences/avatar/pick with upload_id returned by this.

That was just the ticket, thank you MakaryGo :slight_smile: I think the documentation should be a bit clearer that the second step is required, because what’s the point of specifying the user_id in the first request if the uploaded avatar isn’t automatically assigned to the user?

Because you have to specify user_id that is connecting with API, the one that the API Key is issued for, I guess?

API returning user ID of -1 when uploading avatar

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DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor) 10 أكتوبر 2017، 10:07م 2

The parameter api_username specifies the user you are executing the API action as…
… in this case you are likely using system where the default ID for this user is -1.

Negative value user ID’s I believe are used to identify bots.

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