Set avatar

[JRobertson90]

Version info

• intercom-java version: 2.2.11
• Java version: 1.8.0_131

Expected behavior

Ability to set avatar

Actual behavior

There is no setter method in the User object for the avatar.
Is this by design?

[thewheat]

Thanks for raising this up @JRobertson90 !

Looks like we just don't have that feature yet in the current version. But I can confirm that it is possible to update the avatar via the API so we can definitely add it in 👍

Would this be something you're keen to work on? If not that's ok, we can work on it internally 😄

Example of it working

Sample code to update avatar
POST to https://api.intercom.io/users

{
  "user_id": "13",
  "avatar": {
    "type": "avatar",
    "image_url": "https://marketing.intercomassets.com/assets/educate_new/early-stage-b091b7b683224dfdfe0a61e31bc02bfc93ebc430a4557be120b1a05da0cabb43.png"
  }	
}

[JRobertson90]

I think that's something I can do. I'll probably send you a PR sometime this week.

[thewheat]

Fantastic @JRobertson90 😄 Will be waiting 👍

[thewheat]

@JRobertson90 I'm looking to close up this issue in the new year so let me know if you're good to continue work on this otherwise I'll just create a new PR next year when I'm back so that we can get this added to the library 👍

[thewheat]

Just a heads up, that I've added a PR for this in #174 👍

[JRobertson90]

Thank you, @thewheat, I got distracted and forgot about this.

[thewheat]

Not a problem @JRobertson90 😄 It is still a pull request yet to be merged but it will be coming soon enough! 👍

[antonholmquist]

@thewheat If it's possible to set avatar through the API, why is it not in the documentation?

This has also been discussed here: intercom/intercom-ruby#138

[thewheat]

@antonholmquist yes it is possible to set avatar via the API 👍

I do see that the documentation isn't clear on what fields can be updated and which are not though

• There is mention that some data is read only

Social data is read only and can not be updated via the API.
Location data is read only and can not be updated via the API.

• But attributes like session_count is not something you can update and we don't specifically mention that

I'll let the team know about this and see if we can get some better documentation 😄