I know there's methods to add a friend using their ID, email or username, but is there a way to search for a friend using any of those fields?
For example, I search for "Joe" and get 10 results and pick the one I know to be my friend and add them to my friend list.
You can retrieve users by PlayFab ID, Username, Title Display Name, or Email address, but they do need to match. A wildcard or substring search would require a scan operation across the data table, which is an inefficient (and so expensive) operation. One thing you could do, to make it easier for groups of friends to find each other, would be to use Shared Group Data to let people connect with a group of users in the game, so that when a new person connects to that, he could see all the users that have been added to it. We'll be providing a group/clan feature later on which will provide for this in a simpler manner, as well.
That makes sense, thank you!
For now I've just set it up to call the commands one after another where it first tries to add friend by username, if that fails, try to add by email and if that fails let the user know that I couldn't find the player they were trying to add.
Hi Brendan,
I am trying to get the Account info by setting the Title Display Name in "GetAccountInfoRequest" and used the PlayFabClientAPI.GetAccountInfo but not getting any response. Can you please help me out. Basically I want to make the search friends by name so I want to get all users who match that substring, is that possible ?
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