Get current user (and their roles) from SplunkJS

[rmearkle]

I am creating a custom dashboard that will be distributed to a wide range of people with varying levels of access. I have found this code to get the current user:

require([ 'underscore', 'jquery', 'splunkjs/mvc', ],
       function(_, $, mvc ) {        
          var tokens = mvc.Components.getInstance("default");       
          var current=Splunk.util.getConfigValue("USERNAME");        
          tokens.set("currentuser", current);
       });

I also need to be able to get user roles, so that I can dynamically set properties in my D3 chart on this dashboard.

The only alternative I have found is creating what could become dozens of different dashboards with set permissions, which is not really acceptable as there will be so many different tiers under different branches.

[loggar]

It can be done much easier...

                    var service = mvc.createService();
                service.currentUser(function(err, user) {
                    //user real name
                    real_name = user.properties().realname

                    //user name
                    usr = user.name

                    //user roles
                    roles = user.properties().roles
                });

[rmearkle]

Well, answered my own question. Using the REST function I was able to get the roles and parse them inside my Javascript.

var userSearch = new SearchManager({
                    "id": "userSearch",
                    "preview": "false",
                    "cache": "false",
                    "search": "|rest splunk_server=local /services/authentication/current-context |table roles |mvexpand roles"
                }, {tokens: false});


    userSearch.startSearch();
    var roleSearchResults = userSearch.data('results');
    roleSearchResults.on("data", function() {   
        var userRoles = roleSearchResults.data().rows;          
        for(var i=0; i<userRoles.length; i++){
            console.log(userRoles[i][0]);               
        }

    });

This code will log the string values of all the roles for the current user to the console.

[krishnarajapant]

Hi rmearkle,

I have similar kind of requirement.

How can we call this entire code in a function?

How can use this code to restrict few inputs buttons as invisible?

-Krishna Rajapantula