Assigning role using REST API

[MobDev]

Hey guys, Could you please help me, I am trying to assign role to a user with REST API.

I am creating users with following:

http://$URL:4985/$DB/_user/$USERNAME

{

"name":"$USERNAME",

"password":"$PASSWORD"

}

I tried putting "roles" in the above json. 

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,

[Jens Alfke]

> On Oct 12, 2014, at 5:37 PM, MobDev <ehdev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried putting "roles" in the above json.

That should work. Show us the exact JSON you tried, and the exact error you got.

—Jens

[MobDev]

Hi Jens, 

{

"name":"$USERNAME",

"password":"$PASSWORD",

"roles":["$ROLENAME"]

}

I have created role before creating user.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers,

[Jens Alfke]

"$" isn't a valid character in a role name. (You are showing the exact JSON as I asked, right?)

—Jens

[MobDev]

Nope. Sorry, I was using $  sign as variable. I have changed that in the following json with role name.

{

"name":"$USERNAME",

"password":"$PASSWORD",

"roles":["allusers"]

}

[ajres]

@MobDev

When setting explicit roles via the REST API, you should use the 'admin_roles' property.

For your example try the following:

http://$URL:4985/$DB/_user/$USERNAME

{

"name":"$USERNAME",

"password":"$PASSWORD",

"admin_roles":["allusers"]

}

A users 'roles' property is dynamically generated from a user's explicit roles set using 'admin_roles' on the REST API and the roles dynamically assigned via the sync function.

Andy

[MobDev]

That worked. Thanks a lot Andy.

Cheers,