Granting Privileges to a User

With user management, you can grant both users and groups specific MicroStrategy privileges.

The sample code shown below illustrates how to grant all of the MicroStrategy privilege to a user. However, you can add logic in the code to add only specific privileges.

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package com.microstrategy.sdk.samples.usermanagement;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebFolder;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebIServerSession;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebObjectSource;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebObjectsException;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebObjectsFactory;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebSearch;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.admin.users.WebPrivilegeCategories;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.admin.users.WebPrivilegeCategory;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.admin.users.WebPrivilegeEntry;

import com.microstrategy.web.objects.admin.users.WebUser;

import com.microstrategy.webapi.EnumDSSXMLApplicationType;

import com.microstrategy.webapi.EnumDSSXMLObjectSubTypes;

import com.microstrategy.webapi.EnumDSSXMLSearchDomain;

public class GrantAllPrivlegesToUser {

public static WebIServerSession sessionInfo;

public static final String userName = "New User";

/* The following information is required to login and manipulate the User management API */

/* iServerName is the IServer we are connecting to */

public static final String iServerName = "localhost";

/* projectName is the project name we are connecting to */

public static final String projectName = "";

/* loginName is the user name we use to login the project */

public static final String adminLoginName = "administrator";

/* loginPasswd is the password we use to login the project */

public static final String adminLoginPasswd = "";

public static void main(String[] args) {

sessionInfo = getServerSession(iServerName, projectName, adminLoginName, adminLoginPasswd);

WebObjectSource source =sessionInfo.getFactory().getObjectSource();

WebSearch search = source.getNewSearchObject();

search.setNamePattern(userName);

search.setAsync(false);

search.types().add(EnumDSSXMLObjectSubTypes.DssXmlSubTypeUser);

search.setDomain(EnumDSSXMLSearchDomain.DssXmlSearchDomainConfiguration);

try {

search.submit();

WebFolder folder = search.getResults();

if(folder.size()>0){

WebUser user = (WebUser) folder.get(0);

WebPrivilegeCategories cats = sessionInfo.getFactory().getObjectSource().getUserServicesSource().getPrivilegeCategories(user);

//Loop though all categories and privileges and grant all privileges

for (int i = 0; i < cats.size(); i++) {

WebPrivilegeCategory cat = cats.get(i);

String catName = cat.getName(); //Category Name

System.out.println("Privilege Category: " + catName);

for (int j = 0; j < cat.size(); j++) {

WebPrivilegeEntry privilegeEntry = cat.get(j);

privilegeEntry.grant(); //Grant privilege

}

source.save(user);

}

} catch (WebObjectsException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

public static WebIServerSession getServerSession(String serverName, String Project, String loginName, String password) {

WebIServerSession sessionInfo = null;

try {

WebObjectsFactory woFact = WebObjectsFactory.getInstance();

sessionInfo = woFact.getIServerSession();

sessionInfo.setServerName(serverName);

sessionInfo.setProjectName(Project);

sessionInfo.setLogin(loginName);

sessionInfo.setPassword(password);

sessionInfo.setApplicationType(EnumDSSXMLApplicationType.DssXmlApplicationCustomApp);

//Create a new session

sessionInfo.getSessionID();

} catch (WebObjectsException ex) {

System.out.println("Error creating a sesion");

}

return sessionInfo;

}