Account uid changes

Scenarios

• Socialze.setUID
  • Allows renaming of account UID
  • Allows merging two accounts (changing to an existing UID)
• Account Linking
  • Logging in with the same email (2 social providers)
  • Updating email to existing email (profile update)
  • Manually linking via api.
• Progression between different UIDs
  • Lite with UID A and email a@b.com , UID B sets their email to a@b.com
  • Lite With UID A and email a@b.com, user registers with UID B and email a@b.com

Use updates stream to track uid changes

change type

Change type	Description
delete	when an account is deleted.
merge	when tow accounts merged .
move	when an account's uid is renamed.

changes details format

progression

{
  "type": "merge",
  "UID": "123",
  "details": [
    {
      "op": "replace",
      "path": "/accountType",
      "value": "full"
    },
    {
      "op": "replace",
      "path": "/uid",
      "value": "456",
      "oldValue": "123"
    }
  ]
}

link-account

{
  "type": "merge",
  "UID": "1235",
  "details": [ 
    {
      "op": "replace",
      "path": "/uid",
      "value": "4567",
      "oldValue": "1235"
    }
  ]
}

set-uid

{
  "type": "move",
  "UID": "780",
  "details": [
    {
      "op": "replace",
      "path": "/uid",
      "value": "9999",
      "oldValue": "780"
    }
  ]
}

Use webhooks to track uid changes

notification type

Event type	Description
accountMerged	when tow accounts merged .
accountUidChanged	when an account's uid is renamed.
accountProgressed	when a lite account registering the syste,.

notification format

{
      "type": "accountMerged",
      "id": "549f3f9b-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX",
      "timestamp": 1587917548,
      "callId": "0fc9XXX",
      "version": "2.0",
      "apiKey": "4_PBxxxZ-Q",
      "data": {
        "accountType": "full",
        "uid": "33cxxx797",
        "newUid": "45dyyy678"
      }
}

{
      "type": "accountUidChanged",
      "id": "549f3f9b-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX",
      "timestamp": 1587917548,
      "callId": "0fc9XXX",
      "version": "2.0",
      "apiKey": "4_PBxxxZ-Q",
      "data": {
        "accountType": "full",
        "uid": "33cxxx797",
        "newUid": "45dyyy678"
      }
}