User specific data

[Danp]

So you want to retrieve information related to the Self Service portal, correct?

he uses the token then he fetches the vms via apis.

Can you elaborate on this? What specific API is the user calling to retrieve this information?

[irtaza9]

@Danp yes we are testing self service.

Can you elaborate on this? What specific API is the user calling to retrieve this information?

we want to retrieve and perform these > vm list, vm stats, console, actions etc

we do not want to using each user token to access their objects. we want a single point to get the data

[Danp]

@irtaza9 I'm not sure if this is currently possible with the REST API.

[irtaza9]

@Danp said in User specific data:

currently possible with the REST API.

can we do this using JSON-RPC?

[Danp]

@irtaza9 Yes, I imagine that is what XO is using. Calling resourceSet.get will return an array of objects associated with the resource set as well as an array of subjects (users / groups).

[irtaza9]

@Danp

I have two users test.irtaza, testirtaza1 in a resource set named customer. And when login any of the account this is the output of resourceSet.getAll

login via test.irtaza

{
    "id": -9007199254740984,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "id": "V7Gr0uoqGwE",
            "ipPools": [],
            "limits": {
                "cpus": {
                    "usage": 1
                },
                "disk": {
                    "usage": 10737418240
                },
                "memory": {
                    "usage": 4294967296
                },
                "vms": {
                    "usage": 1
                }
            },
            "name": "customer",
            "objects": [
                "d4515c45-71ca-7675-ea70-0fe0a8f7dbe4-7aa32be8-a06c-4ade-8a1d-49e51e03e9d2",
                "d4515c45-71ca-7675-ea70-0fe0a8f7dbe4-09d6b4cc-dd4b-4619-aacb-01576ccd5b0f",
                "20e6d987-f8cb-d1b6-2b49-744a87358ae3",
                "ca780b00-fd77-4a2a-fbb2-6f2859e6b4a7"
            ],
            "subjects": [
                "78f3286b-f4a1-4ba5-80a4-bda4967d47a8"
            ],
            "shareByDefault": false,
            "tags": []
        }
    ]
}

login via testirtaza1

{
    "id": -9007199254740984,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": [
        {
            "id": "V7Gr0uoqGwE",
            "ipPools": [],
            "limits": {
                "cpus": {
                    "usage": 2
                },
                "disk": {
                    "usage": 21474836480
                },
                "memory": {
                    "usage": 8589934592
                },
                "vms": {
                    "usage": 2
                }
            },
            "name": "customer",
            "objects": [
                "d4515c45-71ca-7675-ea70-0fe0a8f7dbe4-7aa32be8-a06c-4ade-8a1d-49e51e03e9d2",
                "d4515c45-71ca-7675-ea70-0fe0a8f7dbe4-09d6b4cc-dd4b-4619-aacb-01576ccd5b0f",
                "20e6d987-f8cb-d1b6-2b49-744a87358ae3",
                "ca780b00-fd77-4a2a-fbb2-6f2859e6b4a7"
            ],
            "subjects": [
                "78f3286b-f4a1-4ba5-80a4-bda4967d47a8",
                "f2858952-b02a-403a-98ca-d94e4cdaa57e"
            ],
            "shareByDefault": false,
            "tags": []
        }
    ]
}

is the array of subjects are the users and array of objects are those things which these subjects have access on?

Also

session.signIn method returns the id of user

{
    "id": -9007199254740991,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "id": "f2858952-b02a-403a-98ca-d94e4cdaa57e",
        "email": "testirtaza1",
        "groups": [],
        "permission": "none",
        "preferences": {}
    }
}

and, acl.getCurrentPermissions method returns those things which belongs to the current loggedIn user?

to call acl.getCurrentPermissions method we have signin by the user credentials(username,password/token)

{
    "id": -9007199254740711,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "58fdee6c-ed56-8a83-31d5-505748165658": {
            "view": 1,
            "operate": 1,
            "administrate": 1
        },
        "89fd8cc9-6fa1-a7cb-a492-19eefd689631": {
            "view": 1,
            "operate": 1,
            "administrate": 1
        }
    }
}

means I have to create the user first then store these credentials at my space so that I can call acl.getCurrentPermissions method and get his VM's and then list those vm's to my portal and allow him to manage their vms from my custom built portal? Is my thinking is correct?

[Danp]

@irtaza9 IDK. Maybe @julien-f will have some ideas on the best way to do this.

[MathieuRA]

Hi @irtaza9
FYI, for about 2 years, VMs expose a creation field:

"creation": {
    "date": string,
    "template": string,
    "user": string
  },

With this you can filter VMs by creation.user to list only VMs created by a user.
/rest/v0/vms?filter=creation:user:<user-id>

[irtaza9]

@MathieuRA

you saved my life bro, thank you so much. I got the right way.

[olivierlambert]

Is your issue solved @irtaza9 ?

[irtaza9]

@MathieuRA endpoint is not returning vms created by user but that user have vms and it's shown in XO when login by testirtaza1 user.

[MathieuRA]

@irtaza9 you need to use the user-id, not the username

[irtaza9]

@MathieuRA

user-id

bg: when you call session.signIn you get the user-id and that id is used to fetch user specific vms.

{
    "id": -9007199254740991,
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": {
        "id": "f2858952-b02a-403a-98ca-d94e4cdaa57e",
        "email": "testirtaza1",
        "groups": [],
        "permission": "none",
        "preferences": {}
    }
}

@olivierlambert yes, issue is resolved. Thanks to @MathieuRA and @Danp