Find Security Roles

{ getRolesByName }

Returns a role and its metadata using the search criteria.

Method

Input Parameters

Output Response

Notes

Use this function together with 'getRoleById' to select and use roles in the system.

Examples

User Operations (JavaScript):

This example demonstrates how to find and delete users, roles and tenants.

The example uses API authentication driven from JavaScript. See Authentication APIs for alternatives.

// URL of the Pyramid installation and the path to the API 2.0 REST methods
var pyramidURL = "http://mysite.com/api2/";

// step 1: authenticate admin account and get token
// NOTE: callApi method is a generic REST method shown below.
let token = callApi("auth/authenticateUser",{
	"data":{
		"userName":"adminUser1",
		"password":"abc123!"
	}
},false);
log("got token "+token);

//########## user ################

//step 2: searching for a user by it's name
let findUser= callApi("access/getUsersByName",{
	"userName": "john",
	"auth": token // admin token generated above
});
				
// get user ID				
let userId=findUser.data[0].id;
				
log("found user with id= "+ userId);

//step 3: deleting the role
let deleteUser=callApi("access/deleteUser",{
	"userId": userId, //from step 2
	"auth": token // admin token generated above
});


//########## role ################

//step 4: searching for a role by it's name
let findRole= callApi("access/getRolesByName",{
	"data": {
		"searchValue": "test role",
		"searchMatchType": 2// search flag enumerations. 2 = SearchMatchType.Equals
	},
	"auth": token // admin token generated above
});
// get role ID	
let roleId=findRole.data[0].roleId;
				
log("found role with id= "+ roleId);

//step 5: deleting the role
let deleteRole=callApi("access/deleteRole",{
	"roleId": roleId, // from step 4
	"auth": token
});


//########## tenant ################

//step 6: search for tenant
let findTenenat=callApi("access/getTenantByName",{
	"tenantName": "Test Tenant 1",
	"auth": token
});
// get tenant ID					
let tenantId=findTenenat.data.id;
				
log("found tenant by name "+ tenantId);

//step 7: delete the tenant we found in step 2
let deleteTenants=callApi("access/deleteTenants",{
	"data": {
	"tenantIds": [
		tenantId
	], // use the array method, because it can accept multiple ID's
	"deleteUsers": true, //delete all tenant users
	"deleteServers": true //delete all data source servers associated with tenant
	},
	"auth": token
});



// ##### optional generic logging method for debugging ##############
function log(msg){
	document.write(msg);
	console.log(msg);
}

// ##### generic REST API calling method ##############
function callApi(path,data,parseResult=true){
	var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	xhttp.open("POST", pyramidURL+path, false);
	xhttp.send(JSON.stringify(data));
	if(parseResult){
		return JSON.parse(xhttp.responseText);
	}else{
		return xhttp.responseText;
	}
}


		

Content Operations (JavaScript):

This example demonstrates how to manage content items in Pyramid.

The example uses API authentication driven from JavaScript. See Authentication APIs for alternatives.

// URL of the Pyramid installation and the path to the API 2.0 REST methods
var pyramidURL = "http://mySite.com/api2/";

// step 1: authenticate admin account and get token
// NOTE: callApi method is a generic REST method shown below.
let token = callApi("auth/authenticateUser",{
	"data":{
		"userName":"adminUser",
		"password":"abc123!"
	}
},false);
log("got token "+token);

//step 2: get the default tenant ID
let defaultTenant=callApi("access/getDefaultTenant",{
	"auth": token // admin token generated above
}).data;

//step 3: return the ID of the public root folder for the tenant from step 2
let tenentPublicFolder = callApi("content/getPublicOrGroupFolderByTenantId",{
	"folderTenantObject": {
		"validRootFolderType": 1,//the public folder of the default tenant
		"tenantId": defaultTenant
	},
	"auth": token //admin token generated from step 1 above
}).data;

//step 4: add a new folder to the public folder from step 3
let folderCreation = callApi("content/createNewFolder",{
	"folderTenantObject": {
		"parentFolderId": tenentPublicFolder.id,
		"folderName": "new folder"
	},
	"auth": token
}).data;
let folderId=folderCreation.modifiedList[0].id;

//step 5: find roles
let findRole = callApi("access/getRolesByName",{
	"data": {
		"searchValue": "role1",
		"searchMatchType": 2//SearchMatchType.Equals
	},
	"auth": token
});
let roleId=findRole.data[0].roleId;
log("found role with id= "+ roleId);

//step 6:add the role we found in step 5 to the folder we created (folderId) in step 4
let addRoleToFolder= callApi("content/addRoleToItem",{
	"roleToItemApiData": {
		"itemId": folderId,
		"roleId": roleId//SearchMatchType.Equals
	},
	"auth": token
});

//step 7: read in a Pyramid Import/Export ('PIE') file
let file="http://myOtherSite.com/Sample.pie";
let pieFile=readPieFile(file);

//step 8: import the PIT file into the folder from step 4
let importContent = callApi("content/importContent",{
	"pieApiObject": {
		"rootFolderId": folderId, //from step 4
		"fileZippedData": pieFile, //the file's content from step 7
		"clashDefaultOption":1,//ClashDefaultOption.REPLACE_FILE like default
		"rolesAssignmentType":3//RoleAssignmentType.ForceParentFolderRoles take roles from parent folder
	},
	"auth": token
}).data;
let itemId=Object.keys(importContent.importDscMap)[0];

//step 9: optional, search for the item we just imported, it's id is itemId
let findContentItem = callApi("content/findContentItem",{
	"searchParams":{
		"searchString":"import",
		"filterTypes":[3],//ContentTypeObject.DataDiscoveryv
		"searchMatchType":2,//SearchMatchType.Equals
		"searchRootFolderType":1//SearchRootFolderType.Public
		
	},
	"auth": token
}).data;


//step 10: check if you need to run datasource changer 
// (since the datasource that created this report dosen't exisits on this server)
if(importContent.importDscMap[itemId][0].needsToPerformDsc){

	step 10A: get item's data source connection
	let correntConnectionStringId=importContent.importDscMap[itemId][0].connectionStringProperties.id
	
	//step 10B: run the data source changer on the items
	let changedDatasource = callApi("dataSources/changeDataSource",{
		"dscApiData":{
			"fromConnId":correntConnectionStringId,
			"toConnId":"55ff277a-53ff-4c39-8f15-5651f1026a2d",//retrive this id using 'getAllConnectionStrings'
			"itemId":itemId
		},
		"auth": token
	});
}

//step 11: copying the imported item to the tenant root folder
let copyItems = callApi("content/copyItems",{
	"moveItemsObject":{
		"itemsForMove":[itemId],
		"destinationFolder":tenentPublicFolder.id		
	},
	"auth": token
}).data;

//step 12: remove roles from the folder but not from the item
let removeRoleFromCreatedFolder= callApi("content/removeRolesFromItem",{
	"rolesInItemRemovalObject": {
		"itemId": folderId,
		"roleIds": [roleId]
	},
	"auth": token
});

//step 13: hard delete the folder (permanently)
let folderDeletion = callApi("content/purgeContentItems",{
	"itemIds":[folderCreation.modifiedList[0].id],
	"auth": token
});

//step 14: soft-delete the items
let itemSoftDeletion = callApi("content/softDeleteContentItems",{
	"itemIds":[copyItems.modifiedList[0].id],
	"auth": token
});




function log(msg){
	document.write(msg);
	console.log(msg);
}

function callApi(path,data,parseResult=true){
	var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	xhttp.open("POST", pyramidURL+path, false);
	xhttp.send(JSON.stringify(data));
	if(parseResult){
		return JSON.parse(xhttp.responseText);
	}else{
		return xhttp.responseText;
	}
}

//example function to read in the contents of a 'PIE' file that contains
//exported Pyramid content.
function readPieFile(file){
	var rawFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
	rawFile.open("GET", file, false);
	rawFile.send(null);
	rawFile.onreadystatechange = function () {
		if (request.readyState === 4 && request.status === 200) {
			return request.responseText;
        }
    }
}