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triSolutionFuse
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10 years ago

add role to user via rest API

Hi all, We're running into an issue, that we cant seem to solve. We are trying to add a role to a user via the rest api, which works great on our staging environment, but on production does not wor...
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    triSolutionFuse
    10 years ago

    Turns out the issue was user error. The problem was in the reference to the user.id in the call:

     

    <#assign addRole = restadmin("/roles/id/${roleID}/users/add?role.user=id/${user.id}") />

    The API expects a computer readable number, with no commas. The above does not provide that if you have a large user id. Solution was to use this to strip the comma from user ids:

     

    <#assign addRole = restadmin("/roles/id/${roleCheck}/users/add?role.user=id/${user.id?c}") />

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triSolutionFuse
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Thanks VarunGrazitti for that tip. I've reached out to Support to see if this is something they need to enable. Will update of any relevant info.  Thanks again.

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triSolutionFuse
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10 years ago

Turns out the issue was user error. The problem was in the reference to the user.id in the call:

 

<#assign addRole = restadmin("/roles/id/${roleID}/users/add?role.user=id/${user.id}") />

The API expects a computer readable number, with no commas. The above does not provide that if you have a large user id. Solution was to use this to strip the comma from user ids:

 

<#assign addRole = restadmin("/roles/id/${roleCheck}/users/add?role.user=id/${user.id?c}") />