Can I know If user is private account when searching?

[emreond]

Hello,

I am searching users with below endpoint. I want to know If returned users have private accounts or followed by me. On previous framework, It was returning friendShip statuses but I guess in this one It returns nil. Is it possible to know that value because I don't wanna call Endpoint.Friendship.summary after each search.

Endpoint.User.all(matching: string)

[emreond]

I could get values with below code. As I saw, It is returning but val is not in the model.

        let friendShipDictionary = user.wrapper().friendshipStatus.dictionary()
        let isPrivate = friendShipDictionary?["isPrivate"]?.bool() ?? false
        let isRestricted = friendShipDictionary?["isRestricted"]?.bool() ?? false

[sbertix]

Hey @emreond,

The property you're looking for is user.access, an enum having .default, .private and .verified cases.

About the friendship status in User models, I simply removed it cause most of the times, as you would know since you were using SwiftyInsta, it is not populated and people would complain about it, and I would find myself wasting so much time in explaining them that it's Instagram's "fault" in not returning those anymore.
I'm considering adding it back for 5.0.0 but I'm not 100% convinced, yet.

[emreond]

Thank you for your reply. Actually I wanted to know If I could reach that users media/followers etc... so I wanted to get If the user has public profile or private but I am following already. I guess I'll combine friendShip with user.access

[sbertix]

Sorry, I genuinely don't get what you mean in your reply.
I feel like my answer covers both the "how to see if a user has a private account" and the "why friendship is not there" (as you've mentioned yourself the "workaround"), so I don't really feel how you could have different expectations given the question… 

"Can I know if a user is private when searching?" Again: yes, just check it's access property.
"Can I get the friendship status of a user when searching?" For most User.Collection Endpoints no you can't cause Instagram does not populate it anymore. If it is populated it's either in user["friendshipStatus"] or user["friendship"], like you said.

Please, if you meant something different in your question that didn't come though, feel free to open a new Discussions 😊

[emreond]

Actually I wanted to get permission of If I can reach users posts or not. For that, user may have public profile or I am already following him/her. I wanted to get this value in search state but I guess It is impossible.