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Data Viewer Tab

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The Data Viewer Tab lets you explore the data that the current container is returning to your application. Use this to debug a container, or see which fields are available on Person objects. This is also a good tool to test the individual policies of a container, as permission models on more restrictive containers may prevent you from doing things such as requesting a user or their friends by ID.

  1. The row of buttons along the top represents the types of data you can request. Pressing these buttons initiates a request to the container for the selected group.
  2. You may also input an ID number and request a user's profile by ID, or a list of the target user's friends.
  1. Person records are displayed with their name and a profile picture.
  2. Pressing the "Show details" button on a Person record will display a long list of the data that the container has returned about that person.
  1. The details view first lists the Person.Field values that were obtained by the container.
  2. Values are displayed in green, on the right. This data viewer handles arrays, complex data types, and enum values.
  3. Below the Person.Field entries is a list of all of the Persistent data for this person.

If a request for a Person or a collection of Person objects fails, you will see an error message indicating that the records were not found. The causes of this failure can vary, from the Person not existing, to a request that was denied due to policy reasons.

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