Contacts are mostly empty (missing name, username, number etc)

[jockharkness]

The problem

Hello,

I successfully linked my device as secondary. I can send messages just fine.

But the v1/contacts/{number} endpoint returns contacts which mostly look like this:

{
"number": "",
"uuid": "a6cd11c0-ac79-41f3-b6a5-abababababa",
"name": "",
"profile_name": "",
"username": "",
"color": "",
"blocked": false,
"message_expiration": ""
},

I have tried the v1/contacts/{number}sync endpoint, but it didnt resolve anything.

Annoying thing is I can see in the account.db file that the data is there, but it's encrypted:

ÏóãõÃ�‡.x.Æ∏�‰Õ�cJk≠àfi7ÎX˚‚:±û<SIGNAL_NAME>UNKNOWNÇ��'�,Ç���U���L����������

Would json-rpc mode give me the number, username, name etc? I heard the responses are the full metadata.

I started up the container in json-rpc mode, and the only calls i could get to work were my existing api calls from normal mode, although this still returned empty data.

When i tried using the json rpc format, i couldnt get it to work.

Thanks

Are you using the latest released version?

• Yes

Have you read the troubleshooting page?

• Yes

What type of installation are you running?

signal-cli-rest-api Docker Container

In which mode are you using the docker container?

Normal Mode

What's the architecture of your host system?

x86-64

Additional information

No response

[bbernhard]

Please enable the debug mode and post the obfuscated output here.

[jockharkness]

Thanks bbernard, here is the output from debug mode:

{"number":null,"uuid":"84a7dae2-38aa-4431-83d8-ac92cb","username":null,"name":"","givenName":null,"familyName":null,"nickName":null,"nickGivenName":null,"nickFamilyName":null,"note":null,"color":null,"isBlocked":false,"isHidden":false,"messageExpirationTime":0,"profileSharing":true,"unregistered":false,"profile":{"lastUpdateTimestamp":0,"givenName":"555","familyName":null,"about":null,"aboutEmoji":null,"hasAvatar":false,"mobileCoinAddress":null}},{"number":null,"uuid":"da28b527-f2a8-44f0-a4a2-a6d7","username":null,"name":"","givenName":null,"familyName":null,"nickName":null,"nickGivenName":null,"nickFamilyName":null,"note":null,"color":null,"isBlocked":false,"isHidden":false,"messageExpirationTime":0,"profileSharing":true,"unregistered":false,"profile":{"lastUpdateTimestamp":0,"givenName":"HellsBells","familyName":null,"about":null,"aboutEmoji":null,"hasAvatar":false,"mobileCoinAddress":null}},{"number":null,"uuid":"d3449949-1f6b-4b6e-93f4-0496","username":null,"name":"","givenName":null,"familyName":null,"nickName":null,"nickGivenName":null,"nickFamilyName":null,"note":null,"color":null,"isBlocked":false,"isHidden":false,"messageExpirationTime":0,"profileSharing":true,"unregistered":false,"profile":{"lastUpdateTimestamp":0,"givenName":"Bitchney","familyName":"Spears","about":null,"aboutEmoji":null,"hasAvatar":false,"mobileCoinAddress":null}},{"number":null,"uuid":"84807d4d-5e65-4a03-a516-7895dde","username":null,"name":"","givenName":null,"familyName":null,"nickName":null,"nickGivenName":null,"nickFamilyName":null,"note":null,"color":null,"isBlocked":false,"isHidden":false,"messageExpirationTime":0,"profileSharing":true,"unregistered":false,"profile":{"lastUpdateTimestamp":0,"givenName":"Nullo","familyName":null,"about":null,"aboutEmoji":null,"hasAvatar":false,"mobileCoinAddress":null}}]\n"

As you can see, everything is null except for uuid and givenName.

I can't send a message to someone based on their uuid right?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[bbernhard]

I think you should also be able to send to UUIDs - although I am not sure if I ever tested that explicitly.

Is there anything special about the contacts? Do they have their numbers hidden?

[jockharkness]

Great, sending messages to the UUID directly works!

Yes, the contacts have their numbers hidden, and the contact isnt saved in my phone

[jockharkness]

I would like to retrieve the givenName and familyName from the v1/contacts/{number} endpoint using signal-cli-rest-api. How can I do this?

[jockharkness]

The docs state that all the following fields are returned, although it seems to me that only the eight fields without strikethrough are returned:

[
{
"blocked": true,
"color": "string",
"given_name": "string",
"message_expiration": "string",
"name": "string",
"nickname": {
"family_name": "string",
"given_name": "string",
"name": "string"
},
"note": "string",
"number": "string",
"profile": {
"about": "string",
"given_name": "string",
"has_avatar": true,
"last_updated_timestamp": 0,
"lastname": "string"
},
"profile_name": "string",
"username": "string",
"uuid": "string"
}
]

It would be great if the signal-cli-rest-api could return all the fields :)

[bbernhard]

It would be great if the signal-cli-rest-api could return all the fields :)

Those changes are not yet released, but you can use this version bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:1747169206-ci - that's basically the next release candidate :)

Yes, the contacts have their numbers hidden, and the contact isnt saved in my phone

okay, that's most probably the reason then.

[jockharkness]

Excellent, thanks for your help

[jockharkness]

@bbernhard I'm pretty sure the version at bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:1747169206-ci has a bug where the user's username gets set to null on linking new device

I saw this problem existed in an older version cerca 2023

Is this expected? Any timeline you can give on the next release?

Thanks

[bbernhard]

@bbernhard I'm pretty sure the version at bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:1747169206-ci has a bug where the user's username gets set to null on linking new device

I saw this problem existed in an older version cerca 2023

Is this expected? Any timeline you can give on the next release?

Thanks

I haven't changed anything in that regard. bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:1747169206-ci uses the latest signal-cli version though. But I haven't experienced the issue you mentioned.