Updating sisid using python api

[Vaibhavi Deshpande]

Hi,

I am able to see that the sisid is modified using the following code :-

login.sis_user_id = "S123456"

login

Out[44]: Login(_requester=<canvasapi.requester.Requester object at 0x0000018C6687F0C8>, id=184, user_id=186, account_id=1, unique_id=test...@gmail.com, created_at=2021-02-25T12:16:26Z, created_at_date=2021-02-25 12:16:26+00:00, sis_user_id=S123456, integration_id=None, authentication_provider_id=None)

But when i login to canvas portal, the sisid field is not updated. Kindly guide me how to update the sis_id of user in canvas table or using python api.

[Eric Dannewitz]

If you use the CanvasAPI, it would be something like this. You'd have to find the current user, then edit them.

import sys
from canvasapi import Canvas

API_URL = "https://canvassite.instructure.com"
API_KEY = "YOURKEYHERE"

canvas = Canvas(API_URL, API_KEY)
account = canvas.get_account(1)

old_sis_login_id = sys.argv[1]

new_sis_login_id = sys.argv[2]
user = canvas.get_user(old_sis_login_id,'sis_login_id')
user.edit(
        user={
            'sis_user_id': new_sis_login_id

             {

        )

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[Vaibhavi Deshpande]

I am getting the error while performing edit

raise Unauthorized(response.json())

Unauthorized: [{'message': 'user not authorised to perform that action'}]

[Eric Dannewitz]

What I emailed was Python, not json. The Canvas API and Python errors don't look like that.

You need Python 3 to run this. And you need to install canvasapi (pip install canvasapi)

Then from powershell, you'd do 

python renamescript,py ssidold ssidnew

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