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Android Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App Adding Users Using Parse.com Logging Out

Posted by poltexious
poltexious
Courses Plus Student 6,993 Points

Why did Ben only use one line of code and not the two lines provided by Parse documentation?

At the Parse documentation regarding Current User there are two lines of code:

You can clear the current user by logging them out:

ParseUser.logOut();
ParseUser currentUser = ParseUser.getCurrentUser(); // this will now be null

Why did Ben only use the first line of code and not the two lines provided by Parse documentation? I remember Ben saying in this video that the cache will be deleted with the first line of code, but why did he not use the second line of code?

Is is not necessary or what? The Parse documentation does not provide more information regarding this topic.

1 Answer

Afik Paryente
Afik Paryente
2,042 Points

The second line is just there to show you that now, the currentUser is null becouse there is no current user logged in. Its affect nothing :)

poltexious
poltexious
Courses Plus Student 6,993 Points

OK. Thank you for your reply! I guess the documentation at Parse could be more clear at this point then. They should not include the second line of code as 'code', because it does more harm than good.