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# Validates a token

GET https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate

If the token is valid returns the user that owns the token

Reference: https://docs.getunleash.io/api/validate-token

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (required) — API key needed to access this API
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — API key needed to access this API, in Bearer token format

## Response

### 200

tokenUserSchema

- `id` (integer, required) — The user id
- `email` (string, required) — The email of the user
- `token` (string, required) — A token uniquely identifying a user
- `createdBy` (string, required, nullable) — A username or email identifying which user created this token
- `role` (roleSchema, required) — A role holds permissions to allow Unleash to decide what actions a role holder is allowed to perform
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the user

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Authorization information is missing or invalid. Provide a valid API token as the `authorization` header, e.g. `authorization:*.*.my-admin-token`.

- `id` (string, optional) — The ID of the error instance
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the error kind
- `message` (string, optional) — A description of what went wrong.

### 415 Unsupported Media Type Error

The operation does not support request payloads of the provided type. Please ensure that you're using one of the listed payload types and that you have specified the right content type in the "content-type" header.

- `id` (string, optional) — The ID of the error instance
- `name` (string, optional) — The name of the error kind
- `message` (string, optional) — A description of what went wrong.

## Types

### roleSchema

A role holds permissions to allow Unleash to decide what actions a role holder is allowed to perform

- `id` (integer, required) — The role id
- `type` (string, required) — A role can either be a global root role (applies to all projects) or a project role
- `name` (string, required) — The name of the role
- `description` (string, optional) — A more detailed description of the role and what use it's intended for
- `project` (string, optional, nullable) — What project the role belongs to

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "id": 7,
  "email": "test@example.com",
  "token": "user:xyzrandomstring",
  "createdBy": "admin@example.com",
  "role": {
    "id": 9,
    "type": "root",
    "name": "Editor",
    "description": "Users with the editor role have access to most features in Unleash but can not manage users and roles in the global scope. Editors will be added as project owners when creating projects and get superuser rights within the context of these projects. Users with the editor role will also get access to most permissions on the default project by default.",
    "project": "default"
  },
  "name": "Test McTest"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate"

headers = {"Authorization": "<apiKey>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: '<apiKey>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "<apiKey>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = '<apiKey>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate")
  .header("Authorization", "<apiKey>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "<apiKey>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "<apiKey>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://app.unleash-instance.example.com/auth/reset/validate")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```