- URL:https://<roles-url>/getRolesForUser(POST only)
- Required Capability:Default administrator role | All authorized privileges
- Version Introduced:10.1
Description
This 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
Parameter | Description |
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username | The name of the user for whom to return the roles. Example
|
filter (Optional) | A filter to be applied to the resultant role set. |
maxCount | The maximum number of results to return for this query. Example
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f | The response format. The default response format is html. Values: html | json | pjson |
Example usage
Below is a sample POST request for getRolesForUser that demonstrates how to get all the roles that have been assigned to user 'jwhite':
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=json
JSON Response syntax
{
"roles": ["<role1>", "<role2>"],
"hasMore": <true|false>
}