What groups am I in?

AllanBowe — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:55:26 GMT

In SAS 9 we could use SAS code to query metadata for group membership information (eg with a macro like this).

In Viya / SPRE, what would be an equivalent approach? Presuming XCMD is disabled.

Re: What groups am I in?

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:31:55 GMT

Hey Alan, @AllanBowe ,

having in mind how SAS Viya works:

a- group memberships come from AD, except for the Custom Groups

b- SAS Viya works with Rest APIs

c- the Rest APIs contain methods to retrieve the memberships

d- you don't need XCMD to call a restAPI (that is the magic of rest APIs)

e- you can use JSON files to be sent to the rest APIs

I have not tried yet this particular method but I think it safe to assume you can run proc htttp,soap and or JSON to interact with the Rest APIs from "simple" SAS code.

However, and to be fair, I could not see a specific identity membership Rest request in https://developer.sas.com/apis/rest/CoreServices/

Pity

But...! SAS has made available as well https://github.com/sassoftware/pyviyatools

In there, I can see a https://github.com/sassoftware/pyviyatools/blob/master/listgroupsandmembers.py

And if I am correct, all should go down to use the /identities/groups and /identities/groups/'+groupid+'/members Rest APIs

Cheers,

Juan

Re: What groups am I in?

AllanBowe — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:36:24 GMT

Hey Juan!

Yes, I figured it must be a REST API to obtain an AD group listing, but like you, couldn't see it in the docs. Good spot finding it in the python repo! Will try out those endpoints..

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