Update documentation for getUserProfile to include information about refreshing and memoization
In what follows we update a retrieved object. We then retrieve it again, but the object we get is the previous one, not the updated one. When we start a new session we get the correct value. This bug was discovered in SYNR-1161 .
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Python 3.6.3 (default, Nov 4 2017, 22:17:09)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import synapseclient
>>> syn=synapseclient.Synapse()
>>> syn.login("RClientTestUser", "xxxxxxxx")
Welcome, RClient TestUser!
>>> up=syn.getUserProfile()
>>> up['etag']
'c4569124-019c-4e6a-8e75-78c404b82dda'
>>> upUpdated=syn.restPUT("/userProfile", up.__str__())
>>> upUpdated['etag']
'49031baa-01a4-46bb-8daf-f92026874fc7'
>>> upRetrievedAgain=syn.getUserProfile()
>>> upRetrievedAgain['etag']
'c4569124-019c-4e6a-8e75-78c404b82dda'
>>>
root@c848caaf0c38:/# python
Python 3.6.3 (default, Nov 4 2017, 22:17:09)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import synapseclient
>>> syn=synapseclient.Synapse()
>>> syn.login("RClientTestUser", "xxxxxxxxxx")
Welcome, RClient TestUser!
>>> up=syn.getUserProfile()
>>> up['etag']
'49031baa-01a4-46bb-8daf-f92026874fc7'
