Users can now be gotten by slug

app/lib/utils.coffee

@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ module.exports.getByPath = (target, path) ->
     obj = obj[piece]
   obj
 
+module.exports.isID = (id) -> _.isString(id) and id.length is 24 and id.match(/[a-f0-9]/gi)?.length is 24
+
 module.exports.round = _.curry (digits, n) ->
   n = +n.toFixed(digits)
 

app/models/User.coffee

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 GRAVATAR_URL = 'https://www.gravatar.com/'
 cache = {}
 CocoModel = require './CocoModel'
+util = require 'lib/utils'
 
 module.exports = class User extends CocoModel
   @className: 'User'
@@ -45,6 +46,28 @@ module.exports = class User extends CocoModel
     cache[id] = user
     user
 
+  # callbacks can be either success or error
+  @getByIDOrSlug: (idOrSlug, force, callbacks={}) ->
+    {me} = require 'lib/auth'
+    isID = util.isID idOrSlug
+    if me.id is idOrSlug or me.slug is idOrSlug
+      callbacks.success me if callbacks.success?
+      return me
+    cached = cache[idOrSlug]
+    user = cached or new @ _id: idOrSlug
+    if force or not cached
+      user.loading = true
+      user.fetch
+        success: ->
+          user.loading = false
+          Backbone.Mediator.publish 'user:fetched'
+          callbacks.success user if callbacks.success?
+        error: ->
+          user.loading = false
+          callbacks.error user if callbacks.error?
+    cache[idOrSlug] = user
+    user
+
   getEnabledEmails: ->
     @migrateEmails()
     emails = _.clone(@get('emails')) or {}

app/schemas/models/user.coffee

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 c = require './../schemas'
 emailSubscriptions = ['announcement', 'tester', 'level_creator', 'developer', 'article_editor', 'translator', 'support', 'notification']
 
-UserSchema = c.object {},
-  name: c.shortString({title: 'Display Name', default: ''})
+UserSchema = c.object
+  title: 'User'
+
+c.extendNamedProperties UserSchema  # let's have the name be the first property
+
+_.extend UserSchema.properties,
   email: c.shortString({title: 'Email', format: 'email'})
   firstName: c.shortString({title: 'First Name'})
   lastName: c.shortString({title: 'Last Name'})

server/users/User.coffee

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ crypto = require 'crypto'
 {salt, isProduction} = require '../../server_config'
 mail = require '../commons/mail'
 log = require 'winston'
+plugins = require '../plugins/plugins'
 
 sendwithus = require '../sendwithus'
 
@@ -136,6 +137,8 @@ UserSchema.statics.hashPassword = (password) ->
   shasum.update(salt + password)
   shasum.digest('hex')
 
+UserSchema.plugin plugins.NamedPlugin
+
 module.exports = User = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema)
 
 AchievablePlugin = require '../plugins/achievements'

server/users/user_handler.coffee

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ UserHandler = class UserHandler extends Handler
   ]
 
   getById: (req, res, id) ->
-    if req.user?._id.equals(id)
+    if Handler.isID(id) and req.user?._id.equals(id)
       return @sendSuccess(res, @formatEntity(req, req.user, 256))
     super(req, res, id)