Missing `user` ID in CPAN accounts

[jackdeguest]

The following endpoints use user IDs such as FepgBJBZQ8u92eG_TcyIGQ (here OALDERS's ID), but not all CPAN accounts have IDs (mine does not), so they would only work with those who have a user ID, which is not likely intentional.

• /v1/author/by_user
• /v1/author/by_user/{user}
• /v1/favorite/{user}/{distribution}
• /v1/favorite/agg_by_distributions see sub options
• /v1/favorite/by_user/{user}

[haarg]

These are all meant to work with users that don't have a connected PAUSE account. I don't see anything wrong here.

[jackdeguest]

These are all meant to work with users that don't have a connected PAUSE account. I don't see anything wrong here.

I do not understand. In the instance I provided, Olaf has both a pause ID (OALDERS) and a user ID FepgBJBZQ8u92eG_TcyIGQ

[haarg]

The APIs are meant to work with all users, including those that do not have a connected PAUSE account.

[jackdeguest]

The APIs are meant to work with all users, including those that do not have a connected PAUSE account.

Got it, thank you. Candidly, I would have thought Pause account owners would have been a subset of people with user IDs.

[haarg]

Users are people that have logged in the site. Without logging in, it's impossible to have favorites. And it isn't possible to log in with just a PAUSE account. Creating a user record for all PAUSE accounts would have no purpose, as there is no data to associate with them. And then linking to a PAUSE account would require merging two user records and throwing away the (empty, useless) user associated with the PAUSE account.