Getting authenticated User details

Typically, you would get User details by the User's numeric Actor ID.

However, if you only have a Bearer token, for example, you don't have any information about the user attached to that session, including even the ID with which to get more information. So you can instead supply the text current to get the user information associated with the authenticated session.

If you do use current, you may request extended metadata. Supply an X-Extended-Metadata header value of true to additionally receive:

• an array of strings of the verbs the authenticated User/Actor is allowed to perform server-wide
• an object containing the preferences of the authenticated User/Actor