[RESOLVED] Appwrite Auth can't resolve user's name

Hi, I'm using Appwrite Auth in my iOS app. While signing up, I fetch the user's full name and pass it into the account.create() function as such:

await account.create(ID.unique(), email, password, name);

Inside my app, I want to display greetings like Good morning, {firstName}

But when I try that with this code:

  const [firstName, setFirstName] = useState("");

  useEffect(() => {
    const getUserData = async () => {
      try {
        const userData = await account.get();
        if (userData && userData.name) {
          // Split the name and get the first part
          const firstNameOnly = userData.name.split(' ')[0];
          setFirstName(firstNameOnly || "User");
        } else {
          setFirstName("User");
        }
      } catch (error) {
        console.error("Error fetching user data:", error);
        setFirstName("User"); // Fallback name if there's an error
      }
    };

    getUserData();
  }, []);

I always see "User", yet appwrite cloud shows the full name, separated by whitespaces, as it should be.

Also, inside the settings of my app, I want the user to be able to edit their full name so that if they want to use a nickname they can do so. I didn't find any functions that can edit the name of an user - is there any way to do this ?

I'm on expo (react native).

i tried console.log-ing await account.get().name in many ways but it is always either empty string or the default value set by typescript

should probably be -

(await account.get()).name

or if you console log the whole user object, whats the output?

console.log(JSON.stringify(userData, null, 2))

oh yay your console log statement helped me debug this ! thanks a lot.

I was in the wrong account which was created before I started passing the name in the account.create() function, so it had a null name.

[RESOLVED] Appwrite Auth can't resolve user's name