(Pipelines) Get Users in Role / Process XML from HTTP API

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Hello, any help/advice would be much appreciated.I'm trying to send a reminder email to users in a specific Role, in a specific App, using Pipelines.As far as I can tell, there is not a JSON RESTful API call that does this (Get Users only returns all users for an App, with no info on Roles).&nbsp; However, API_UserRoles returns each user from an app with what Roles they have.&nbsp; In theory, I could somehow loop over this and send the email to only those users with a specific role.I can successfully use the Quickbase Channel -&gt; 'Quickbase APIs' -&gt; 'Make Request' step to call API_UserRoles and get this data.Here's where I run into trouble:

How do I process this XML into a form that another step could use (e.g. loop over it and send emails)?&nbsp; I found this question: "To capture an XML response from an API in Pipelines" but I can't seem to figure out how get {{a.json.qdbapi.value}}.&nbsp; When I try to view its contents (emailed to myself) it is blank.

There isn't any "Result" field or something like that from this request step available in subsequent steps.&nbsp; Only URL, Method, Headers, Content Type, &amp; Body.

For instance, if I want to get the JSON out of the XML (using {{a.json.qdbapi.value}}) with the JSON Handler Channel -&gt; 'Iterate over JSON Records', the 'JSON Source' field states 'No json sources in the pipeline'

Thank you for any help you can offer,~Daniel------------------------------Daniel------------------------------

doughenning1 · Answer

This code will filter the API_UserRoles output on a specified role and return the names as a semicolon-separated list:
{% set searchRoleId = '12' -%}
{% set users = b.json.qdbapi.users.user -%}
{% for user in users if user["@type"] == "user" -%}
{# Handle single vs array of roles -#}
{% if user.roles.role is iterable and user.roles.role is not mapping -%}
{# Array of roles -#}
{% set userRoles = user.roles.role | map(attribute='@id') | list -%}
{% else -%}
{# Single role, return as array of roles -#}
{% set userRoles = [user.roles.role['@id']] -%}
{% endif -%}
{% if searchRoleId in userRoles -%}
{{ user['name'] }}{{';' if not loop.last }}
{%- endif -%}
{% endfor -%}
Change line 1 to search for a different role id. The data returned from API_UserRoles is different if a user is a member of a single role vs multiple roles, so this code has the logic to handle both cases.
The output will look like "John Doe;Jane Smith;Bob Jones". The output of the regex step should assign a "group_0" to each of the names that you can iterate with a loop.
Hope that helps!

doughenning1 · Answer

You can use the Regex channel to create a list of objects to iterate:

Then you can add a loop to check each one. Since each "group_0" in the match is a string representation of an object, you can reference any of it's properties. For example, to get the id, convert the string to an object then reference the property: {{ (b.group_0|from_json)['@id'] }}

If you want to filter out certain roles just put the filtering logic in the jinja for step B to exclude adding to the list.

Hope that's helpful!

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Doug Henning
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teresasteeg1 · Answer

I know this post is old, but it relates very well to what I'm trying to do.&nbsp; I'm trying to get the user names of all people in a particular role.&nbsp; There's just a couple things I don't understand in the RegEx channel.&nbsp; First, how do I write the code to filter the logic in step B for a certain role (for example, Role ID = 12)?&nbsp; Second, I am trying to retrieve the user's name.&nbsp; It's stated that you should convert the string "group_0" to an object and can then reference the property.&nbsp; How is this done?&nbsp; I ultimately want to create a record with the user name or delete a record for that user name from a test table, depending on what is returned from the API_UserRoles call.

teresasteeg1 · Answer

Here is some other code from Doug Henning about 2 years ago that seemed like it was working for my issue, but I get an error when I paste it into the Text* field for the Find All Matches to a RegEx which says that it contains invalid Jinja syntax.

{% set users = a.json.qdbapi.users.user -%}

{% set searchRoleId = '18' -%}

{% for user in users if (user.roles.role | selectattr("@id", "eq", searchRoleId)|list|count) > 0 or user.roles.role['@id'] == searchRoleId -%} {{ user.name }} ({{user["@id"]}}){{ "," if not loop.last }}

{% endfor -%}

I was able to run the pipeline once though, and it gave me the result I was looking for, but after that it won't allow me to run the pipeline. And like I mentioned in my earlier post, the lengthier bit of code referenced in this post allows me to get past the syntax errors, but give me an error when I run the pipeline.

teresasteeg1 · Answer

Sorry to bother you again, but I really don't understand where the problem is.&nbsp; Any help is truly appreciated.&nbsp; Here is a screenshot of the pipeline and error:&nbsp;

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