Expose User firstName, photo, and countryCode in Reportback Items endpoint

[aaronschachter]

Phoenix Reportback Item endpoint needs to display the User photo for each Reportback Item.

One possible approach:

• Sync Northstar User photo to Phoenix User photo
• Expose user photo in Phoenix reportback items endpoint

[aaronschachter]

@uy We'll also need the same for User countryCode.

[aaronschachter]

The user's first name should be included in this endpoint as well.

[chloealee]

@aaronschachter since we're moving user info out of drupal, can we just make reportback items endpoint request this info from northstar and append it to the response that gets sent to you? :)

[mshmsh5000]

We could lazy-load these from Northstar and cache them on the Drupal side with a reasonable timeout (e.g., 24 hrs).

[angaither]

@mshmsh5000 confused, are you saying we lazy load user profiles images from Northstar into drupal? or just cache them with the response drupal returns

[mshmsh5000]

I assume we're talking about returning a URL to the user's profile image, correct?

What I'm suggesting is, while assembling a report back (WARNING: pseudo-code and fake German to follow):

/**
 * Das functionne
 */
function assemble_reportback($rbid) {
  // ...
  $user = $rb->user;
  $profile_image_url = northstar_get_profile_image($user);
  // ...
}

/**
 * Das lazy loaden-werk
 */
function northstar_get_profile_image($user) {
  $profile_image_url = cache_get('northstar_profile_image_' . $user->uid);

  if (empty($profile_image_url)) {
    $profile_image_url = actually_load_image_url_from_northstar($user);

    if (empty($profile_image_url)) {
      throw new NorthstarDataException("All of the people in your party have died.");
    }

    $cache_set('northstar_profile_image_' . $user->uid, $profile_image_url, 'cache', REQUEST_TIME + 60*60*24);
  }

  return $profile_image_url;
}