Evernote API: Module: UserStore

Struct: PublicUserInfo

Field	Type
userId	Types.UserID
shardId	string
privilege	Types.PrivilegeLevel
username	string
noteStoreUrl	string
webApiUrlPrefix	string

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
currentTime	Types.Timestamp
authenticationToken	string
expiration	Types.Timestamp
user	Types.User
publicUserInfo	PublicUserInfo
noteStoreUrl	string
webApiUrlPrefix	string
secondFactorRequired	bool
secondFactorDeliveryHint	string

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.

secondFactorRequired:

If set to true, this field indicates that the user has enabled two-factor authentication and must enter their second factor in order to complete authentication. In this case the value of authenticationResult will be a short-lived authentication token that may only be used to make a subsequent call to completeTwoFactorAuthentication.

secondFactorDeliveryHint:

When secondFactorRequired is set to true, this field may contain a string describing the second factor delivery method that the user has configured. This will typically be an obfuscated mobile device number, such as "(xxx) xxx-x095". This string can be displayed to the user to remind them how to obtain the required second factor.

Struct: BootstrapSettings

Field	Type
serviceHost	string
marketingUrl	string
supportUrl	string
accountEmailDomain	string
enableFacebookSharing	bool
enableGiftSubscriptions	bool
enableSupportTickets	bool
enableSharedNotebooks	bool
enableSingleNoteSharing	bool
enableSponsoredAccounts	bool
enableTwitterSharing	bool
enableLinkedInSharing	bool
enablePublicNotebooks	bool

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. http://www.evernote.com. This stem can be used to compose website URLs. For example, the URL of the App Center is composed by appending "/about/appcenter/" 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
name	string
settings	BootstrapSettings

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
profiles	list<BootstrapProfile>

This structure describes a collection of bootstrap profiles.

profiles:

List of one or more bootstrap profiles, in descending preference order.

Function: UserStore.checkVersion

bool checkVersion(string clientName,
                  i16 edamVersionMajor = 1,
                  i16 edamVersionMinor = 25)

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".

@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,
                                  bool supportsTwoFactor)
    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.yinxiang.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.

@param  supportsTwoFactor Whether the calling application supports two-factor authentication. If this parameter is false, this method will fail with the error code INVALID_AUTH and the parameter "password" when called for a user who has enabled two-factor authentication.

@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.

If the user has two-factor authentication enabled, AuthenticationResult.secondFactorRequired will be set and AuthenticationResult.authenticationToken will contain a short-lived token that may only be used to complete the two-factor authentication process by calling UserStore.completeTwoFactorAuthentication.

@throws  EDAMUserException

• DATA_REQUIRED "username" - username is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "password" - password is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "consumerKey" - consumerKey is empty
• INVALID_AUTH "username" - username not found
• INVALID_AUTH "password" - password did not match
• INVALID_AUTH "consumerKey" - consumerKey is not authorized
• INVALID_AUTH "consumerSecret" - consumerSecret is incorrect
• PERMISSION_DENIED "User.active" - user account is closed
• PERMISSION_DENIED "User.tooManyFailuresTryAgainLater" - user has failed authentication too often

Function: UserStore.authenticateLongSession

AuthenticationResult authenticateLongSession(string username,
                                             string password,
                                             string consumerKey,
                                             string consumerSecret,
                                             string deviceIdentifier,
                                             string deviceDescription,
                                             bool supportsTwoFactor)
    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.yinxiang.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.yinxiang.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.

@param  supportsTwoFactor Whether the calling application supports two-factor authentication. If this parameter is false, this method will fail with the error code INVALID_AUTH and the parameter "password" when called for a user who has enabled two-factor authentication.

@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.

If the user has two-factor authentication enabled, AuthenticationResult.secondFactorRequired will be set and AuthenticationResult.authenticationToken will contain a short-lived token that may only be used to complete the two-factor authentication process by calling UserStore.completeTwoFactorAuthentication.

@throws  EDAMUserException

• DATA_REQUIRED "username" - username is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "password" - password is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "consumerKey" - consumerKey is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "consumerSecret" - consumerSecret is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "deviceDescription" - deviceDescription is empty
• BAD_DATA_FORMAT "deviceDescription" - deviceDescription is not valid.
• BAD_DATA_FORMAT "deviceIdentifier" - deviceIdentifier is not valid.
• INVALID_AUTH "username" - username not found
• INVALID_AUTH "password" - password did not match
• INVALID_AUTH "consumerKey" - consumerKey is not authorized
• INVALID_AUTH "consumerSecret" - consumerSecret is incorrect
• PERMISSION_DENIED "User.active" - user account is closed
• PERMISSION_DENIED "User.tooManyFailuresTryAgainLater" - user has failed authentication too often

Function: UserStore.completeTwoFactorAuthentication

AuthenticationResult completeTwoFactorAuthentication(string authenticationToken,
                                                     string oneTimeCode,
                                                     string deviceIdentifier,
                                                     string deviceDescription)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException

Complete the authentication process when a second factor is required. This call is made after a successful call to authenticate or authenticateLongSession when the authenticating user has enabled two-factor authentication.

@param  authenticationToken An authentication token returned by a previous call to UserStore.authenticate or UserStore.authenticateLongSession that could not be completed in a single call because a second factor was required.

@param  oneTimeCode The one time code entered by the user. This value is delivered out-of-band, typically via SMS or an authenticator application.

@param  deviceIdentifier See the corresponding parameter in authenticateLongSession.

@param  deviceDescription See the corresponding parameter in authenticateLongSession.

@return The result of the authentication. The level of detail provided in the returned AuthenticationResult.User structure depends on the access level granted by the calling application's API key. If the initial authentication call was made to authenticateLongSession, the AuthenticationResult will contain a long-lived authentication token.

@throws  EDAMUserException

• DATA_REQUIRED "authenticationToken" - authenticationToken is empty
• DATA_REQUIRED "oneTimeCode" - oneTimeCode is empty
• BAD_DATA_FORMAT "authenticationToken" - authenticationToken is not well formed
• INVALID_AUTH "oneTimeCode" - oneTimeCode did not match
• AUTH_EXPIRED "authenticationToken" - authenticationToken has expired
• PERMISSION_DENIED "authenticationToken" - authenticationToken is not valid
• PERMISSION_DENIED "User.active" - user account is closed
• PERMISSION_DENIED "User.tooManyFailuresTryAgainLater" - user has failed authentication too often
• DATA_CONFLICT "User.twoFactorAuthentication" - The user has not enabled two-factor authentication.

Function: UserStore.revokeLongSession

void revokeLongSession(string authenticationToken)
    throws Errors.EDAMUserException, Errors.EDAMSystemException

Revoke an existing long lived authentication token. This can be used to revoke OAuth tokens or tokens created by calling authenticateLongSession, and allows a user to effectively log out of Evernote from the perspective of the application that holds the token. The authentication token that is passed is immediately revoked and may not be used to call any authenticated EDAM function.

@param  authenticationToken the authentication token to revoke.

@throws  EDAMUserException

• DATA_REQUIRED "authenticationToken" - no authentication token provided
• BAD_DATA_FORMAT "authenticationToken" - the authentication token is not well formed
• INVALID_AUTH "authenticationToken" - the authentication token is invalid
• AUTH_EXPIRED "authenticationToken" - the authentication token is expired or is already revoked.

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

• PERMISSION_DENIED "authenticationToken" - the provided authentication token is a shared or business authentication token.
• PERMISSION_DENIED "Business" - the user identified by the provided authentication token is not currently a member of a business.
• PERMISSION_DENIED "Business.status" - the business that the user is a member of is not currently in an active status.

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

• DATA_REQUIRED "username" - username is empty

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).