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Access user group membership through REST API using agoTools and Python

HeathBrackett1 — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:26:25 GMT

I'm trying to access the user['groups'] property using a python script that calls the getUsers from agoTools. I can access the users and get information, but the 'groups' property (described as a json array) seems to be empty? I may just be accessing it incorrectly.

I am assigning the 'groups' property to a numpy array but the array comes up empty. Any suggestions?

for user in users:

UserGroupList = numpy.array(user['groups'])

print UserGroupList.shape

produces a long list of:

(0,)

...

Re: Access user group membership through REST API using agoTools and Python

AlexanderNohe1 — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:50:34 GMT

Hi Heath,

I have never had much luck with agoTools and instead I use portalpy which seems to be a little more friendly. You may want to consider trying portalpy rather than agoTools for what you are trying to do.

Esri/portalpy · GitHub

While although this is a different module, I think you may find this module a little bit easier to use.

I hope this helps!

Thanks

Re: Access user group membership through REST API using agoTools and Python

HeathBrackett1 — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:13:16 GMT

Hi Alex,

I ended up using the Esri/ArcREST - GitHub module for some of the processes that I needed to do. It worked. I didn't know about the Esri/portalpy tools though. Thanks for sharing that link. I'll look into incorporating those into my scripting.

Heath