[Drop.io API] Action for validating API key

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

Is there an easy way to validate an API key via REST? I didn't see anything in the API reference that looked like it was designed for that. I could just try to create a short-lived empty drop, but that seems wasteful.

I'm working on an app that lets a user enter an API key, and I'd like to check to make sure it works before I try to use it for anything practical.

Thanks.

/jgt
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[Jacob Robbins]

you could try fetching a known drop. that will give you the api key
invalid error if the key is not good.

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[Jake Good]

I believe that the API Key error is the first that comes back (in the
chain of errors). So just about any call to the API would work. But I
wouldn't really rely on that.

If you did a call to:

http://api.drop.io/drops/?api_key=<INSERT YOUR API KEY>&version=2.0

and got a 404, your key works. I know it sounds strange, but even if
we were to do something at the /drops level, it would probably return
something useful.

Jake Good
http://dev.drop.io