GetUser.md

GET User

Request used to get a specific user for a given account

• URL

  https://rest.logentries.com/management/accounts/:accountid/users/:userid

• Method:

  GET

• Authentication:

  Owner key is required.

• URL Params

accountid=[UUID] Example Value: de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546014

userid=[UUID] Example Value: de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546014

• Data Params

  None

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content:

    {
      'id':'UserID',
      'user_name':'UserName',
      'login_name':'LoginName',
      'email':'Email',
      'first_name':'FirstName',
      'last_name':'LastName',
    }
    

• Error Response:

  If a request other then GET is made.

  • Code: 405 UNAUTHORIZED
    

  If the Account or User can not be found

  • Code: 404 NOT FOUND
    

• Sample Call:

def gensignature(api_key, date, content_type, request_method, query_path, request_body): hashed_body = base64.b64encode(hashlib.sha256(request_body).digest()) canonical_string = request_method + content_type + date + query_path + hashed_body

# Create a new hmac digester with the api key as the signing key and sha1 as the algorithm
digest = hmac.new(api_key, digestmod=hashlib.sha1)
digest.update(canonical_string)

return digest.digest()

def create_headers(): date_h = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT") content_type_h = "application/json" method = 'GET' action = 'management/accounts/%s/user/%s' % (resource_id, user_id) signature = gensignature(api_key_id, date_h, content_type_h, method, action, '') headers = { "Date": date_h, "Content-Type": content_type_h, "authorization-api-key": "%s:%s" % (api_key_id.encode('utf8'), base64.b64encode(signature)) } print headers return headers

def get_account(users): uri = 'https://rest.logentries.com/management/accounts/%s/user/%s' % (resource_id, user_id) r = requests.request('GET', uri, headers=headers) print r.status_code, r.content

* **Notes:**