Get Roles For User

URL:
https://<root>/security/roles/getRolesForUser
Methods:
POST
Required Capability:
Access allowed with any authorized privilege
Version Introduced:
10.1

Description

The getRolesForUser operation returns a list of role names that have been assigned to a particular user account. This operation is used by the authorization module in ArcGIS Server to determine the collective privileges of a requesting user account.

Request parameters

ParameterDescription

username

The name of the user for whom to return the roles.

Example
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username=jwhite

filter

(Optional)

A filter to be applied to the resultant role set.

maxCount

The maximum number of results to return for this query.

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maxCount=20

f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the getRolesForUser operation that seeks to return all roles that have been assigned to user 'jwhite':

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POST /webadaptor/admin/security/roles/getRolesForUser HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

username=jwhite&filter=&maxCount=20&f=pjson

JSON Response syntax

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{
  "roles": ["<role1>", "<role2>"],
  "hasMore": <true|false>
}

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