Password recovery for user with no email ??

User Service
1

Hi -

In our Android app, we have user ‘mobile number’ as the userid - as we dont expect all users to be active email users.

So, our case demands sending new temporary password over SMS only. However, I am not able to think of on how I can achieve the same in backendless.

I can use afterRestorePassword to send SMS - but we don’t get new password value in it.

Can you please suggest any workaround ??

Thanks.

Regards,
Aditya

2

Hello!

Unfortunately, backendless expects BackendlessUser to have email in order to execute restore password feature properly.
For your case I can offer you to create your own “restorePassword” feature using hosted service. For example, method implementing it might look like the following:

public void restorePassword( String userPhone )
{
BackendlessDataQuery query = new BackendlessDataQuery( "userPhone=" + userPhone );
BackendlessCollection<BackendlessUser> response = Backendless.Data.of( BackendlessUser.class ).find( query );
if( response.getData().size() == 0 )
// user not found, throw exception
BackendlessUser targetUser = response.getData().get( 0 );
String newPassword = generateRandomPassword();
targetUser.setPassword( newPassword );
Backendless.UserService.update( targetUser );
// send sms with new password to the user
}

Best regards,
Alex

3

ahhh, you mean create a REST API for this. This will work just fine for us. Thanks.

4

Not just REST, you’ll be able to call the methods through any supported sdk, including android.