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Add New Group In Ranger using REST API

samlogin — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:05:15 GMT

Hi Experts,

I am looking for adding new groups in Ranger using the REST API but couldn't find any method. I did get the groups listed but not able to create API for adding new one.

Thanks

Re: Add New Group In Ranger using REST API

apathan — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:01:30 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 New Group In Ranger using REST API

apathan — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:47:23 GMT

@samarth srivastava

Please accept and close this thread, if the above solution worked for you.

Re: Add New Group In Ranger using REST API

samlogin — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 22:25:12 GMT

Hi, thanks. This helped.