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Nconforti
Mentor
5 years ago

roles_to_add/roles_to_remove not working

Hi everyone, I'm developing a python script and using the Khoros python module. Through this module I'm sending a PUT request to the community to either add or remove roles from specific users. My r...
  • ShalinA's avatar
    ShalinA
    5 years ago

    Hi Nconforti,

    I just noticed one issue with the data you are providing in the api request body 

    any roles that you want to add or remove, can you please put them in a list even if it is just one role or more than one? If you still see the problem, I will do further investigation.

    I.E 

    {"data":{"type":"user","roles_to_add":["t:Customer"]}}
Nconforti's avatar
Nconforti
Mentor
5 years ago

Hi ShalinA - I removed that role from the user. This is on our production instance and I'm authenticating with a session key using my admin credentials.

I also tried using CURL with this command:

curl -X PUT https://community.<company>.com/api/2.0/users/6 -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'li-api-session-key:<session key>' -d '{"data":{"type":"user","roles_to_add":"t:Customer"}}'

I also get a success response:

{"status":"success","message":"","http_code":200,"data":{...}

Using the same call with the V1 API worked as a workaround, but the v2 API still isn't working

  • ShalinA's avatar
    ShalinA
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    Hi Nconforti,

    I just noticed one issue with the data you are providing in the api request body 

    any roles that you want to add or remove, can you please put them in a list even if it is just one role or more than one? If you still see the problem, I will do further investigation.

    I.E 

    {"data":{"type":"user","roles_to_add":["t:Customer"]}}
    • SuzieH's avatar
      SuzieH
      Khoros Alumni (Retired)
      5 years ago

      Nconforti I see where you were tripped up by our documentation. I didn't realize that those reference pages (which get generated automatically) do not indicate that this needed to be a string array. I'll be working to get this remedied with our Engineering team, and I'll also be providing examples for adding/removing roles to users in our API Guides.