View User

POST {api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}

View a user in the specified community.

Request

Parameters

Field	Type	Requirement	Description
Username	String	Required	A unique username that acts as your user’s identifier.
Metadata	String	Optional	Any other detail that the merchant wishes to store on this transaction.

Example Body

{
  "Username": "27820000000",
  "Metadata": "{\"ActorUserIDs\": \"547828938941114\"}"
}

Response

The response contains all stored details for the specified user.

Example Body

{
    "TID": "14975698683",
    "Username": "27820000000",
    "MSISDN": "27820000000",
    "IDNumber": "0108256028085",
    "Password": "P@ssw0rd123",
    "Timezone": "Africa/Johannesburg",
    "Currency": "ZAR",
    "ProfileImageUrl": "https://example.com/profile/27820000000.jpg",
    "BannerImageUrl": "https://example.com/banner/27820000000.jpg",
    "DisplayName": "John A",
    "FirstName": "John",
    "LastName": "Dory",
    "Email": "john@celbux.com",
    "HouseNumber": "2009",
    "StreetName": "Maritime Street",
    "Suburb": "Centurion",
    "Town": "Pretoria",
    "Province": "Gauteng",
    "AccountName": "MR J DORY",
    "AccountNumber": "6287805043",
    "AccountType": "Savings",
    "BankName": "FNB",
    "BranchCode": "250655",
    "CanWithdraw": "0",
    "LowBalanceAlertAmount": "10000",
    "Provider": "ParentCompany",
    "Group": "FoodCompanyA",
    "Longitude": "28.2833",
    "Latitude": "-25.7479",
    "CommercialRegistrationNumber": "2012/759414/07",
    "TaxNumber": "0777885252",
    "UMetadata": "{\"Sender\": \"John D\"}",
    "Metadata": "{\"ActorUserIDs\": \"547828938941114\"}",
    "State": "Success",
    "Status": "1",
    "Error": ""
}

cURL

curl -X POST '{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}' \
-H 'Authorization: bearer YOUR_TOKEN' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"Username":"27820000000","Metadata":"{\"ActorUserIDs\": \"547828938941114\"}"}'

C#

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {
        var client = new HttpClient();
        var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}");
        request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "bearer YOUR_TOKEN");

        var jsonPayload = @"{
  ""Username"": ""27820000000"",
  ""Metadata"": ""{\""ActorUserIDs\"": \""547828938941114\""}""
}";
        request.Content = new StringContent(jsonPayload, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

        var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

        var responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        Console.WriteLine(responseBody);
    }
}

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "io/ioutil"
  "net/http"
  "strings"
)

func main() {
  url := "{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}"
  payload := strings.NewReader(`{"Username":"27820000000","Metadata":"{\"ActorUserIDs\": \"547828938941114\"}"}`)

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
  req.Header.Add("Authorization", "bearer YOUR_TOKEN")
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class ApiRequest {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var payload = """
                {
  "Username": "27820000000",
  "Metadata": "{\"ActorUserIDs\": \"547828938941114\"}"
}
                """;

        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create("{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}"))
                .header("Authorization", "bearer YOUR_TOKEN")
                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(payload))
                .build();

        var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Node.js

// Requires Node.js v18+
(async () => {
    const url = '{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}';
    const payload = {
    "Username": "27820000000",
    "Metadata": {
        "ActorUserIDs": "547828938941114"
    }
};

    try {
        const response = await fetch(url, {
            method: 'POST',
            headers: {
                'Authorization': 'bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
                'Content-Type': 'application/json'
            },
            body: JSON.stringify(payload)
        });
        const data = await response.json();
        console.log(data);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Error:', error);
    }
})();

PHP

<?php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => '{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{
  "Username": "27820000000",
  "Metadata": "{\"ActorUserIDs\": \"547828938941114\"}"
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Authorization: bearer YOUR_TOKEN',
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Python

import requests
import json

url = "{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}"
payload = {
  "Username": "27820000000",
  "Metadata": {
    "ActorUserIDs": "547828938941114"
  }
}

headers = {
    "Authorization": "bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

url = URI("{api-url}/viewUser?ns={community}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'bearer YOUR_TOKEN'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'

request.body = JSON.dump({
  "Username": "27820000000",
  "Metadata": {
    "ActorUserIDs": "547828938941114"
  }
})

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body