question Re: Add group in Ranger using REST API in Support Questions

Add group in Ranger using REST API

samlogin — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:01:29 GMT

I am not finding any way to add new group to Ranger using REST API. It is available in GUI but I need REST API. Please help.

I am able to list the groups but not able to create new one.

Re: Add group in Ranger using REST API

apathan — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:01:26 GMT

@samarth srivastava

REST API to create user group is "/service/xusers/secure/groups", Please refer to the below example on the usage.

curl -v -u '<username>:<password>' 'http://<ranger_host_address>:<ranger_port>/service/xusers/secure/groups' -H 'X-XSRF-HEADER: ""' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' --data-binary '{"name":"temporary-group","description":"test"}'

The request payload contains the user group name and description info.

Re: Add group in Ranger using REST API

hemant_dindi — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:09:15 GMT

Can you please share the REST API Command which you are using to fetch the groups?

Re: Add group in Ranger using REST API

samlogin — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 22:23:58 GMT

Thanks a lot. This helped a lot.

Re: Add group in Ranger using REST API

bharath028 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:06:12 GMT

Is there a rest API to add a user to this group. I have a REST API to create a user now I want to add him to this group and to a new group. How can i do that using "userName".