New Facebook applications are returning a numeric ID for username instead of the actual username about gae-init

[mdxs]

Is there any blog/twitter/news announcement from Facebook on this?

[lipis]

Didn't hear anything.. just noticed it.. :)

[lipis]

So there is no username in v2.0: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23527664/8418

The probably we'll have to create the username based on the slugified name or something like that..

[lipis]

@gmist Maybe because of this new change, we'll have to use their name as a fallback for their username instead of the Numerical ID. But since the names could be unicodes we'll have to use the same approach with the unidecode as in gae-init-auth.. What do you think?

[gmist]

Yes, it seems we need to use unidecode

unidecode.unidecode(response['name'])

[lipis]

In the user creation for the username should probably slugify before doing whatever..

username = util.slugify(username).replace('-', '.')

[gmist]

I think that slugify is not needed

def create_user_db(auth_id, name, username, email='', **params):
  username = re.sub(r'-+|_+|-+|\s+', '.', username.split('@')[0].lower().strip())

[lipis]

and maybe:

def create_user_db(auth_id, name, username, email='', **params):
  username = unidecode.unidecode(username.split('@')[0].lower().strip())
  username = re.sub(r'-+|_+|-+|\s+', '.', username)

[gmist]

+1

[gmist]

  username = unidecode.unidecode(username.split('@')[0].lower()).strip()
  username = re.sub(r'[\W_]+', '.', username)

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