getResourceOwner Question

[gsdevme]

Shouldn't the end point of this be https://eu.api.battle.net/account/user

[tpavlek]

It's chiefly a contextual thing. id and BattleTag are the only two fields retrieved from account/user altogether not very helpful.

The context of the applications using this are things where they want to prove ownership of an SC2 account, and then get the associated details. Stuff like your clan, your profile image, that is relevant information in the context that this application is used. BattleTag... eh not so much. For the use-case of this the /sc2/profile and wow/profile urls are just so much more useful.

[gsdevme]

Yeah I understand, just in terms of unique user I need the battletag / id ... seems odd that getResourceOwner doesn't return the "user"

[tpavlek]

It does return a unique user in the context of each provider. The person
with that SC2 ID or that WoW ID will be the only user within each of those
game's worlds. Yeah, this package doesn't directly mirror battle.net's
account system, but that's an easy fix. You already get back an access
token in the flow - you could just make another HTTP request to the
account/user endpoint with your access token and get the details you need.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Gavin Staniforth notifications@github.com
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Yeah I understand, just in terms of unique user I need the battletag / id
... seems odd that getResourceOwner doesn't return the "user"

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[gsdevme]

The WoWProfile returns multiple characters so its not really unique as you can delete characters in the game..

However yes Im going to wrap it and make a second call against the account/user

[tpavlek]

That's perfectly reasonable - it might make more sense to query
account/user from the WoW side. I don't actually have a WoW account, and
the nature of Blizz's API docs is such that I have literally no idea what
the wow endpoints return.

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The WoWProfile returns multiple characters so its not really unique as you
can delete characters in the game..

However yes Im going to wrap it and make a second call against the
account/user

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[WyriHaximus]

Just ran into this, the wow endpoint returns a list of characters. But no Id's so nothing to identify a character by when it gets renamed or moves realm. Are there plans to add the battletag to the user object?