Dearest shopify forum users, I am trying to get the id of the currently logged in user via an app proxy. After perusing almost all of the documentation I have not found a method to do so. Does anybody have any experience of doing so or know of a way? I know that I can create links in the shop and s…

Why are you trying to get the customer id, exactly? As far as I know, there’s no way for the app proxy to receive any of the customer’s information directly (the proxy even strips all cookies to and from your app, so you can’t even tell whether a customer’s logged in or not). It can, however, render…

You can use the Proxy to populate the Liquid phase of your rendering needs, and then use a Javascript callback with the customer info to further refine the page rendering. That is one pattern that works in this case.

I require the customer Id so I can store information related to the user on my side and conversely render content related to that user in a template back to the client. Using {{ customer.id }} will not help as this is only displayed to the client. I this case, a gift registry, the user can add a pr…

I built an App like yours and had no trouble making a customer specific wishlist that included a comments section that only allowed invited customer friends to participate. In other words, each customer’s Wishlist was unique to them, included their friends, and the shop merchant had access too. Addi…

Well, uh, in my gift registry app which is about to be released, we solved this problem by using an OAuth authentication scheme with user sessions, based off a shared secret and the customer’s email.

@hunkybill , mind sharing how you did that? Did you just create a custom collection and append products to it? @Adam , are you saying that you found the same short comings as me and had to implement some custom solution to get around the issue? (pretty sure I’ve spoken to you before about this simila…

Indeed. I leverage built-in Shopify features as much as possible, in this case collections.

I wasn’t that bothered about authenticating, it’s a wishlist after all, I guess you could add ■■■■■■ to somebodies list or something but that’s about the worst you could do with it, maybe I’m just lacking imagination. Anyway, I digress, the easiest way would be to accept the Id in the request and do…

@hunkybill , do you think I’m over engineering this sucker. To be honest I’m only doing a favour for a friend, it’s consuming a lot more time than I had expected. I had written a full liquid app using customer collections but I junked it fearing it would scale poorly. Do you just build an Id for a w…

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Adam_Harrison2 September 17, 2013, 9:56pm 8

We may have spoken, I can’t recall. That being said; yes, pretty much. The app proxy wasn’t designed to let you authenticate users, only shops, so you need to do it yourself.

Adam

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