[OSM-dev] Using OAuth

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Aug 31 15:46:38 BST 2009


On 30/08/09 18:36, Sven Anders wrote:

> Perhabs someone could add a username and mailaddress api call?

We are not going to be giving out email addresses to OAuth API users 
anymore than we do to anybody else.

> Suggestion:
>
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/username
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/mail
>
> Also:
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/picture
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/languages
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/description
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/position/lat
> GET /api/0.6/user/account/position/lon

There is already a user details call that returns an XML document with 
user information so anything new should be added to that rather than 
creating extra API calls.

> I saw that my user account is having much tokens, because my application is
> always creating a new one, when the user want to have access to my app, as
> the user is not loggin in at my aplication I can not find a older token in my
> database.
>
> Is there a good reason why one user should have more than one access token for
> one application?

Matt is the expert on OAuth so I'll leave him to answer this.

Tom

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