Example: Listing permissions for a namespace and user

Here’s a sample HTTP GET request that retrieves namespace and user permissions for:

The finance namespace owned by the europe tenant in the hcp.example.com system.

The pdgrey user account. (The account is identified by the Authorization header).

Request with curl command line

curl -k -H "Authorization: HCP cGRncmV5:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"
    "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com/proc/permissions"

Request in Python using PycURL

import pycurl
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP
  cGRncmV5:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"])
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com \
  /proc/permissions")
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
curl.perform()
print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
curl.close()

 

Request headers

GET /proc/permissions HTTP/1.1
Host: /finance.europe.hcp.example.com
Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d
Content-Length: 1286

Response headers

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-HCP-Time: 1334326410
Content-Length: 880

Response body

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/static/xsl/proc-permissions.xsl"?>
<permissions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="/static/xsd/proc-permissions.xsd"
            namespaceName="finance">
    <namespacePermissions
        browse="true"
        read="true"
        write="true"
        changeOwner="true"
        delete="true"
        privileged="true"
        purge="true"
        search="false"/>
    <namespaceEffectivePermissions
        browse="true"
        read="true"
        write="true"
        changeOwner="true"
        delete="true"
        privileged="true"
        purge="false"
        search="false"/>
    <userPermissions
        browse="true"
        read="true"
        write="true"
        changeOwner="true"
        delete="true"
        privileged="false"
        purge="true"
        search="true"/>
    <userEffectivePermissions
        browse="true"
        read="true"
        write="true"
        changeOwner="true"
        delete="true"
        privileged="false"
        purge="false"
        search="false"/>
</permissions>

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