getUserRoles

A Graze API GET request that returns the specified user's roles from the database.

Request arguments

Endpoint getUserRoles takes the following request arguments:

Name	Type	Required	Description
`auth_token`	String	Yes	A valid `auth_token` returned from the `authenticate` request. Alternatively, basic authenticate headers can be used in place of this parameter. See the authenticate endpoint for more information and usage examples.
`user_id`	Number	No, if you specify `username`.	User ID.
`username`	String	No, if you specify `user_id`.	A valid username.

Response

Endpoint getUserRoles returns the following response:

Type	Description
HTTP Code	HTTP status or error code indicating request success or failure. See HTTP status code definitions for more information.

Successful requests return an array of JSON objects containing the following:

Name	Type	Description
JSON Object	JSON	An array javascript object containing the role IDs, the role names and the role descriptions assigned to the user.

Examples

The following examples demonstrate typical use of endpoint getUserRoles:

Request example

Example cURL request to return the assigned roles for user "bigfish917":

curl -G -u graze:graze -k -v "https://localhost/graze/v1/getUserRoles" \
--data-urlencode "username=bigfish917"

Response example

Example response returning the roles assigned to the user:

[
    {
        "id" : 2,
        "name" : "Administrator",
        "description" : "Administrator"
    },
    {
        "id" : 4,
        "name" : "Operator",
        "description" : "Operator"
    },
    {
        "id" : 5,
        "name" : "Customer",
        "description" : "Customer"
    }
]