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User Collection Resource
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A User Collection resource behaves much like the standard Collection resource, but adds the ability to authenticate with a username and password.
Special properties
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The User Collection contains two special properties:
* **email** - For security, hidden by default on all users except the current user.
* **password** - Never readable under any circumstances. Can only be set when the user is logged in, when creating a new user, or from the Dashboard.
Authenticating a user
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First create a user by POSTing it to the root of the collection.
For this example our collection will be called `/users`.
POST /users/login
Content-Type: application/json
{
"email": "foo@bar.com",
"password": "barfoo"
}
To login a user, send a POST request to `/<collection name>/login`:
POST /users/login
Content-Type: application/json
{
"email": "foo@bar.com",
"password": "barfoo"
}
The server will respond with the user, without the password.
200 OK
{
"_id": "4f71fc7c2ba744786f000001",
"email": "foo@bar.com"
}
To logout a user send a DELETE request to `/<collection name>/logout`:
204 No Content
The currently logged in user is available when GETing `/users/me`.