Evernote API: Module: UserStore

Module Services Data types Constants
UserStore UserStore
 AuthenticationResult
BootstrapInfo
BootstrapProfile
BootstrapSettings
PublicUserInfo
 EDAM_VERSION_MAJOR
EDAM_VERSION_MINOR

Constants

Constant Type Value
EDAM_VERSION_MAJOR i16 1
The major version number for the current revision of the EDAM protocol. Clients pass this to the service using UserStore.checkVersion at the beginning of a session to confirm that they are not out of date.
EDAM_VERSION_MINOR i16 23
The minor version number for the current revision of the EDAM protocol. Clients pass this to the service using UserStore.checkVersion at the beginning of a session to confirm that they are not out of date.

Data structures

Struct: PublicUserInfo

Field Type Requiredness Default value
userId Types.UserID required
shardId string required
privilege Types.PrivilegeLevel optional
username string optional
noteStoreUrl string optional
webApiUrlPrefix string optional

This structure is used to provide publicly-available user information about a particular account.
userId:
The unique numeric user identifier for the user account.
shardId:
DEPRECATED - Client applications should have no need to use this field.
privilege:
The privilege level of the account, to determine whether this is a Premium or Free account.
noteStoreUrl:
This field will contain the full URL that clients should use to make NoteStore requests to the server shard that contains that user's data. I.e. this is the URL that should be used to create the HTTP client transport to send messages to the NoteStore service for the account.
webApiUrlPrefix:
This field will contain the initial part of the URLs that should be used to make requests to Evernote's thin client "web API", which provide optimized operations for clients that aren't capable of manipulating the full contents of accounts via the full data model. Clients should concatenate the relative path for the various servlets onto the end of this string to construct the full URL, as documented on our developer web site.

Struct: AuthenticationResult

Field Type Requiredness Default value
currentTime Types.Timestamp required
authenticationToken string required
expiration Types.Timestamp required
user Types.User optional
publicUserInfo PublicUserInfo optional
noteStoreUrl string optional
webApiUrlPrefix string optional

When an authentication (or re-authentication) is performed, this structure provides the result to the client.
currentTime:
The server-side date and time when this result was generated.
authenticationToken:
Holds an opaque, ASCII-encoded token that can be used by the client to perform actions on a NoteStore.
expiration:
Holds the server-side date and time when the authentication token will expire. This time can be compared to "currentTime" to produce an expiration time that can be reconciled with the client's local clock.
user:
Holds the information about the account which was authenticated if this was a full authentication. May be absent if this particular authentication did not require user information.
publicUserInfo:
If this authentication result was achieved without full permissions to access the full User structure, this field may be set to give back a more limited public set of data.
noteStoreUrl:
This field will contain the full URL that clients should use to make NoteStore requests to the server shard that contains that user's data. I.e. this is the URL that should be used to create the HTTP client transport to send messages to the NoteStore service for the account.
webApiUrlPrefix:
This field will contain the initial part of the URLs that should be used to make requests to Evernote's thin client "web API", which provide optimized operations for clients that aren't capable of manipulating the full contents of accounts via the full data model. Clients should concatenate the relative path for the various servlets onto the end of this string to construct the full URL, as documented on our developer web site.

Struct: BootstrapSettings

Field Type Requiredness Default value
serviceHost string required
marketingUrl string required
supportUrl string required
accountEmailDomain string required
enableFacebookSharing bool optional
enableGiftSubscriptions bool optional
enableSupportTickets bool optional
enableSharedNotebooks bool optional
enableSingleNoteSharing bool optional
enableSponsoredAccounts bool optional
enableTwitterSharing bool optional
enableLinkedInSharing bool optional
enablePublicNotebooks bool optional

This structure describes a collection of bootstrap settings.
serviceHost:
The hostname and optional port for composing Evernote web service URLs. This URL can be used to access the UserStore and related services, but must not be used to compose the NoteStore URL. Client applications must handle serviceHost values that include only the hostname (e.g. www.evernote.com) or both the hostname and port (e.g. www.evernote.com:8080). If no port is specified, or if port 443 is specified, client applications must use the scheme "https" when composing URLs. Otherwise, a client must use the scheme "http".
marketingUrl:
The URL stem for the Evernote corporate marketing website, e.g. https://www.evernote.com. This stem can be used to compose website URLs. For example, the URL of the Evernote Trunk is composed by appending "/about/trunk/" to the value of marketingUrl.
supportUrl:
The full URL for the Evernote customer support website, e.g. https://support.evernote.com.
accountEmailDomain:
The domain used for an Evernote user's incoming email address, which allows notes to be emailed into an account. E.g. m.evernote.com.
enableFacebookSharing:
Whether the client application should enable sharing of notes on Facebook.
enableGiftSubscriptions:
Whether the client application should enable gift subscriptions.
enableSupportTickets:
Whether the client application should enable in-client creation of support tickets.
enableSharedNotebooks:
Whether the client application should enable shared notebooks.
enableSingleNoteSharing:
Whether the client application should enable single note sharing.
enableSponsoredAccounts:
Whether the client application should enable sponsored accounts.
enableTwitterSharing:
Whether the client application should enable sharing of notes on Twitter.

Struct: BootstrapProfile

Field Type Requiredness Default value
name string required
settings BootstrapSettings required

This structure describes a collection of bootstrap settings.
name:
The unique name of the profile, which is guaranteed to remain consistent across calls to getBootstrapInfo.
settings:
The settings for this profile.

Struct: BootstrapInfo

Field Type Requiredness Default value
profiles list<BootstrapProfile> required

This structure describes a collection of bootstrap profiles.
profiles:
List of one or more bootstrap profiles, in descending preference order.

Services

Service: UserStore

Service: UserStore

The UserStore service is primarily used by EDAM clients to establish authentication via username and password over a trusted connection (e.g. SSL). A client's first call to this interface should be checkVersion() to ensure that the client's software is up to date.

All calls which require an authenticationToken may throw an EDAMUserException for the following reasons:

Function: UserStore.checkVersion

bool checkVersion(string clientName,
                  i16 edamVersionMajor = 1,
                  i16 edamVersionMinor = 23)
This should be the first call made by a client to the EDAM service. It tells the service what protocol version is used by the client. The service will then return true if the client is capable of talking to the service, and false if the client's protocol version is incompatible with the service, so the client must upgrade. If a client receives a false value, it should report the incompatibility to the user and not continue with any more EDAM requests (UserStore or NoteStore).

@param  clientName This string provides some information about the client for tracking/logging on the service. It should provide information about the client's software and platform. The structure should be: application/version; platform/version; [ device/version ] E.g. "Evernote Windows/3.0.1; Windows/XP SP3" or "Evernote Clipper/1.0.1; JME/2.0; Motorola RAZR/2.0;

@param  edamVersionMajor This should be the major protocol version that was compiled by the client. This should be the current value of the EDAM_VERSION_MAJOR constant for the client.

@param  edamVersionMinor This should be the major protocol version that was compiled by the client. This should be the current value of the EDAM_VERSION_MINOR constant for the client.

Function: UserStore.getBootstrapInfo 

BootstrapInfo getBootstrapInfo(string locale)
This provides bootstrap information to the client. Various bootstrap profiles and settings may be used by the client to configure itself.

@param  locale The client's current locale, expressed in language[_country] format. E.g., "en_US". See ISO-639 and ISO-3166 for valid language and country codes.

@return The bootstrap information suitable for this client.

Function: UserStore.authenticate

AuthenticationResult authenticate(string username,
                                  string password,
                                  string consumerKey,
                                  string consumerSecret)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
This is used to check a username and password in order to create a short-lived authentication session that can be used for further actions.

This function is only available to Evernote's internal applications. Third party applications must authenticate using OAuth as described at dev.evernote.com.

@param  username The username (not numeric user ID) for the account to authenticate against. This function will also accept the user's registered email address in this parameter.

@param  password The plaintext password to check against the account. Since this is not protected by the EDAM protocol, this information must be provided over a protected transport (e.g. SSL).

@param  consumerKey The "consumer key" portion of the API key issued to the client application by Evernote.

@param  consumerSecret The "consumer secret" portion of the API key issued to the client application by Evernote.

@return The result of the authentication. If the authentication was successful, the AuthenticationResult.user field will be set with the full information about the User.

@throws  EDAMUserException


Function: UserStore.authenticateLongSession 

AuthenticationResult authenticateLongSession(string username,
                                             string password,
                                             string consumerKey,
                                             string consumerSecret,
                                             string deviceIdentifier,
                                             string deviceDescription)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
This is used to check a username and password in order to create a long-lived authentication token that can be used for further actions.

This function is not available to most third party applications, which typically authenticate using OAuth as described at dev.evernote.com. If you believe that your application requires permission to authenticate using username and password instead of OAuth, please contact Evernote developer support by visiting dev.evernote.com.

@param  username The username or registered email address of the account to authenticate against.

@param  password The plaintext password to check against the account. Since this is not protected by the EDAM protocol, this information must be provided over a protected transport (i.e. SSL).

@param  consumerKey The "consumer key" portion of the API key issued to the client application by Evernote.

@param  consumerSecret The "consumer secret" portion of the API key issued to the client application by Evernote.

@param  deviceIdentifier An optional string, no more than 32 characters in length, that uniquely identifies the device from which the authentication is being performed. This string allows the service to return the same authentication token when a given application requests authentication repeatedly from the same device. This may happen when the user logs out of an application and then logs back in, or when the application is uninstalled and later reinstalled. If no reliable device identifier can be created, this value should be omitted. If set, the device identifier must be between 1 and EDAM_DEVICE_ID_LEN_MAX characters long and must match the regular expression EDAM_DEVICE_ID_REGEX.

@param  deviceDescription A description of the device from which the authentication is being performed. This field is displayed to the user in a list of authorized applications to allow them to distinguish between multiple tokens issued to the same client application on different devices. For example, the Evernote iOS client on a user's iPhone and iPad might pass the iOS device names "Bob's iPhone" and "Bob's iPad". The device description must be between 1 and EDAM_DEVICE_DESCRIPTION_LEN_MAX characters long and must match the regular expression EDAM_DEVICE_DESCRIPTION_REGEX.

@return The result of the authentication. The level of detail provided in the returned AuthenticationResult.User structure depends on the access level granted by calling application's API key.

@throws  EDAMUserException


Function: UserStore.authenticateToBusiness 

AuthenticationResult authenticateToBusiness(string authenticationToken)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
This is used to take an existing authentication token that grants access to an individual user account (returned from 'authenticate', 'authenticateLongSession' or an OAuth authorization) and obtain an additional authentication token that may be used to access business notebooks if the user is a member of an Evernote Business account.

The resulting authentication token may be used to make NoteStore API calls against the business using the NoteStore URL returned in the result.

@param  authenticationToken The authentication token for the user. This may not be a shared authentication token (returned by NoteStore.authenticateToSharedNotebook or NoteStore.authenticateToSharedNote) or a business authentication token.

@return The result of the authentication, with the token granting access to the business in the result's 'authenticationToken' field. The URL that must be used to access the business account NoteStore will be returned in the result's 'noteStoreUrl' field. The 'User' field will not be set in the result.

@throws  EDAMUserException


Function: UserStore.refreshAuthentication 

AuthenticationResult refreshAuthentication(string authenticationToken)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
This is used to take an existing authentication token (returned from 'authenticate') and exchange it for a newer token which will not expire as soon. This must be invoked before the previous token expires.

This function is only availabe to Evernote's internal applications.

@param  authenticationToken The previous authentication token from the authenticate() result.

@return The result of the authentication, with the new token in the result's 'authenticationToken' field. The 'User' field will not be set in the result.

Function: UserStore.getUser

Types.User getUser(string authenticationToken)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
Returns the User corresponding to the provided authentication token, or throws an exception if this token is not valid. The level of detail provided in the returned User structure depends on the access level granted by the token, so a web service client may receive fewer fields than an integrated desktop client.

Function: UserStore.getPublicUserInfo 

PublicUserInfo getPublicUserInfo(string username)
    throws Errors.EDAMNotFoundException, Errors.EDAMSystemException, Errors.EDAMUserException
Asks the UserStore about the publicly available location information for a particular username.

@throws  EDAMUserException


Function: UserStore.getPremiumInfo 

Types.PremiumInfo getPremiumInfo(string authenticationToken)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
Returns information regarding a user's Premium account corresponding to the provided authentication token, or throws an exception if this token is not valid.

Function: UserStore.getNoteStoreUrl 

string getNoteStoreUrl(string authenticationToken)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException
Returns the URL that should be used to talk to the NoteStore for the account represented by the provided authenticationToken. This method isn't needed by most clients, who can retrieve the correct NoteStore URL from the AuthenticationResult returned from the authenticate or refreshAuthentication calls. This method is typically only needed to look up the correct URL for a long-lived session token (e.g. for an OAuth web service).