CopyPermissions.cs

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// <copyright file="CopyPermissions.cs" company="Softlayer">
//     SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
// </copyright>
// <license>
// http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
// </license>
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namespace Users
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    class CopyPermissions
    {
        /// <summary>
        ///  This script copies permissions from an user to another users
        ///  For more information, review the following links:
        /// </summary>
        /// <manualPages>
        /// http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Account/getUsers
        /// http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_User_Customer/addBulkPortalPermission
        /// http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/Object-Filters
        /// </manualPages>
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Your SoftLayer username
            string username = "set me";
            // Your SoftLayer apiKey
            string apiKey = "set me";
            // Declare the username from which you want to copy its permissions
            string usernameSource = "usernameSource";
            // Declare the usernames for which you want to copy the permissions
            List<string> usernameList = new List<string>();
            usernameList.Add("username1");
            usernameList.Add("username2");
            usernameList.Add(usernameSource);
            // Creating a connection to the SoftLayer_User_Customer and SoftLayer_Account API services and bind our API username and key to it.
            authenticate authenticate = new authenticate();
            authenticate.username = username;
            authenticate.apiKey = apiKey;
            SoftLayer_User_CustomerService customerService = new SoftLayer_User_CustomerService();
            customerService.authenticateValue = authenticate;
            SoftLayer_AccountService accountService = new SoftLayer_AccountService();
            accountService.authenticateValue = authenticate;
            // Declare an object filter, to get the user ids from usernames
            SoftLayer_AccountObjectFilter objectFilter = new SoftLayer_AccountObjectFilter();
            objectFilter.users = new SoftLayer_User_CustomerObjectFilter();
            objectFilter.users.username = new SoftLayer_Utility_ObjectFilter_Operation();
            objectFilter.users.username.operation = "in";
            objectFilter.users.username.options = new SoftLayer_Utility_ObjectFilter_Operation_Option[1];
            objectFilter.users.username.options[0] = new SoftLayer_Utility_ObjectFilter_Operation_Option();
            objectFilter.users.username.options[0].name = "data";
            objectFilter.users.username.options[0].value = usernameList.ToArray();
            accountService.SoftLayer_AccountObjectFilterValue = objectFilter;
            try
            {
                // Get users
                SoftLayer_User_Customer[] users = accountService.getUsers();
                // to store source user permisions 
                SoftLayer_User_Customer_CustomerPermission_Permission[] permissions = new SoftLayer_User_Customer_CustomerPermission_Permission[0];
                // Get Permissions from source user
                foreach (var user in users)
                {
                    if(user.username == usernameSource)
                    {
                        // Setting init parameters
                        customerService.SoftLayer_User_CustomerInitParametersValue = new SoftLayer_User_CustomerInitParameters();
                        customerService.SoftLayer_User_CustomerInitParametersValue.id = (int)user.id;
                        // Get its permissions
                        permissions = customerService.getPermissions();
                    }
                }
                // Adding permissions to another users
                foreach (var user in users)
                {
                    if (user.username != usernameSource)
                    {
                        // Setting init parameters
                        customerService.SoftLayer_User_CustomerInitParametersValue = new SoftLayer_User_CustomerInitParameters();
                        customerService.SoftLayer_User_CustomerInitParametersValue.id = (int)user.id;
                        // Adding permissions for user
                        bool result = customerService.addBulkPortalPermission(permissions);
                        Console.WriteLine("Have been copied the permissions successfully to user: " + user.username + "?: " + result);
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Unable to copy permissions: " + e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}