Set Metadata Properties on Creation

To create a user with the following profile details:

{
    "emails": "jane.doe@example.com",
    "user_metadata": {
        "hobby": "surfing"
    },
    "app_metadata": {
        "plan": "full"
    }
}

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Make the following POST call to the Create User endpoint of the Management API, to create the user and set the property values:

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curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users' \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer ABCD' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"email": "jane.doe@example.com", "user_metadata": {"hobby": "surfing"}, "app_metadata": {"plan": "full"}}'

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var client = new RestClient("https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("authorization", "Bearer ABCD");
request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\"email\": \"jane.doe@example.com\", \"user_metadata\": {\"hobby\": \"surfing\"}, \"app_metadata\": {\"plan\": \"full\"}}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\"email\": \"jane.doe@example.com\", \"user_metadata\": {\"hobby\": \"surfing\"}, \"app_metadata\": {\"plan\": \"full\"}}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("authorization", "Bearer ABCD")
	req.Header.Add("content-type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

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HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users")
  .header("authorization", "Bearer ABCD")
  .header("content-type", "application/json")
  .body("{\"email\": \"jane.doe@example.com\", \"user_metadata\": {\"hobby\": \"surfing\"}, \"app_metadata\": {\"plan\": \"full\"}}")
  .asString();

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var axios = require("axios").default;

var options = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users',
  headers: {authorization: 'Bearer ABCD', 'content-type': 'application/json'},
  data: {
    email: 'jane.doe@example.com',
    user_metadata: {hobby: 'surfing'},
    app_metadata: {plan: 'full'}
  }
};

axios.request(options).then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch(function (error) {
  console.error(error);
});

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#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

NSDictionary *headers = @{ @"authorization": @"Bearer ABCD",
                           @"content-type": @"application/json" };
NSDictionary *parameters = @{ @"email": @"jane.doe@example.com",
                              @"user_metadata": @{ @"hobby": @"surfing" },
                              @"app_metadata": @{ @"plan": @"full" } };

NSData *postData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:parameters options:0 error:nil];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users"]
                                                       cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy
                                                   timeoutInterval:10.0];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setAllHTTPHeaderFields:headers];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:request
                                            completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                if (error) {
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", error);
                                                } else {
                                                    NSHTTPURLResponse *httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse *) response;
                                                    NSLog(@"%@", httpResponse);
                                                }
                                            }];
[dataTask resume];

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$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"email\": \"jane.doe@example.com\", \"user_metadata\": {\"hobby\": \"surfing\"}, \"app_metadata\": {\"plan\": \"full\"}}",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "authorization: Bearer ABCD",
    "content-type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

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import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("")

payload = "{\"email\": \"jane.doe@example.com\", \"user_metadata\": {\"hobby\": \"surfing\"}, \"app_metadata\": {\"plan\": \"full\"}}"

headers = {
    'authorization': "Bearer ABCD",
    'content-type': "application/json"
    }

conn.request("POST", "/YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users", payload, headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

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require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["authorization"] = 'Bearer ABCD'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"email\": \"jane.doe@example.com\", \"user_metadata\": {\"hobby\": \"surfing\"}, \"app_metadata\": {\"plan\": \"full\"}}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

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import Foundation

let headers = [
  "authorization": "Bearer ABCD",
  "content-type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "email": "jane.doe@example.com",
  "user_metadata": ["hobby": "surfing"],
  "app_metadata": ["plan": "full"]
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v2/users")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()

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