system.security.getUserRoles

Description

Fetches the roles for a user from the Gateway. This may not be the currently logged in user. Requires the password for that user. If the authentication profile name is omitted, then the current project's default authentication profile is used.

Syntax

system.security.getUserRoles(username, password, authProfile, timeout)

Parameters

String username - The username to fetch roles for

String password - The password for the user

String authProfile - The name of the authentication profile to run against. Optional. Leaving this out will use the project's default profile.

Integer timeout - Timeout for client-to-gateway communication. (default: 60,000ms)

Returns

PyTuple - A list of the roles that this user has, if the user authenticates successfully. Otherwise, returns None.

Scope

Client

Examples

Fetch the roles for a given user, and check to see if the role "Admin" is in them.

reqRole = "Admin"
username = "Billy"
password= "Secret"
roles = system.security.getUserRoles(username, password)
if reqRole in roles:
   # do something requiring "Admin" role.