Account validation

Validate your IDriveSync account by using the validateAccount API.

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• Input parameters
• Output
• Description
• Expected output
• Code snippet

Syntax for ‘validateAccount’ API:

HTTP method: POST

Input parameters:

uid	username or email address
pwd	password

If you are using OAuth authentication method, uid and pwd are not required.

Output:

Below is a sample XML output generated during account validation:

<tree message="SUCCESS" desc="VALID ACCOUNT" configstatus="NOT SET"/> Or
<tree message="SUCCESS" desc="VALID ACCOUNT" configstatus="SET" configtype="PRIVATE"/>

wherein, configstatus states if the Encryption configuration for the account exists or not.

Note: If the configstatus="NOT SET" then use configureAccount API to configure your account with AES 256-bit encryption.

Description:

• tree
  Root node with attributes; message and desc.
• message
  This attribute describes the operation as SUCCESS or FAIL.
• desc
  This attribute displays the error(s) that are generated during an invalid operation.

Following cases explain the expected outputs during INVALID operations:

• Case 1: Empty Username or Password
  
  The output is as follows:
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID PARAMETERS"/>
• Case 2: Invalid Username or Password
  
  The output is as follows:
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID USER"/> Or
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID PASSWORD"/>

Code snippets for Java, PHP, Python and Ruby:

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Ruby: