topic Re: Getting the permissions details a metada folder from Rest API in SAS Viya

Getting the permissions details a metada folder from Rest API

BigRider — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:10:16 GMT

Hi Guys !

In SAS 9.4 I had some scripts which I use to extract some details from metadata folders like permissions, last modified date, who created, etc...using them in a internal audit reporting. I´m looking that now in SAS Vyia so many information of environment also can get via Rest API, but I couldn´t identified any example of how can I get the permissioning details of a folder in SAS Vyia Content in the API github or documentation.

I´d like to extract the authorization details of a folder of this screen via a script ou API call. could anyone help me ?

Best Regards

Re: Getting the permissions details a metada folder from Rest API

joeFurbee — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:45:26 GMT

Hi @BigRider,

The good news is, you have several options.

The sas-admin authorization explains command. sas-admin commands run from the SAS Viya CLI. More information is found on the documentation page.
You can use the pyviyatools library which is a Python command-line tool that call the SAS Viya REST APIs. You'd want to look into the explainaccess.py tool.
Finally, you could use the Core Services-> Authorization REST API directly. The API is defined on developer.sas.com and here is an example of the API from the devsascom-rest-api-samples repository.

I hope one of these options will satisfy your requirement.

Thanks,

Joe

Re: Getting the permissions details a metada folder from Rest API

BigRider — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:59:12 GMT

Hi Joe !,

Thanks for quick answer. It´s exactly What I was looking for.

I´ll try it and post the results after I´ll get it.

All the best,