How To Reset Password

A user may forget their password or want to change it. Use the methods on this page to support that.

Send password reminder

Send a GET request to SendPasswordReminder(String):

1var remindPasswordUrl = $"{storedrestURL}UserService/SendPasswordReminder?user={email}";
2using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
3{
4    string s = client.DownloadString(remindPasswordUrl);
5    var simpleResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<SimpleResponse>(s);
6
7}

SimpleResponse Result

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{
  "errorMessage": "",
  "success": true,
  "tokenExists": true,
  "tokenIsValid": true
}

Change password

Send a POST to ChangePassword(ChangePassword, String, String):

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 1var changePasswordUrl = $"{storedrestURL}UserService/ChangePassword?token={savedToken}&device={device}";
 2
 3var http = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri(changePasswordUrl));
 4http.Accept = "application/json";
 5http.ContentType = "application/json";
 6http.Method = "POST";
 7
 8var postBody = @"{
 9      userId = 311,
10      newPassword = "iAmComPleX$33"
11
12};
13
14ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
15Byte[] bytes = encoding.GetBytes(postBody);
16
17Stream newStream = http.GetRequestStream();
18newStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
19newStream.Close();
20
21var response = http.GetResponse();
22
23var stream = response.GetResponseStream();
24var sr = new StreamReader(stream);
25var s = sr.ReadToEnd();
26var response = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<SimpleResponse>(s);

SimpleResponse Result

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{
  "errorMessage": "",
  "success": true,
  "tokenExists": true,
  "tokenIsValid": true
}