[Building Sakai] Getting User Role in a site Programmatically

[Stephen Marquard]

The first is an account type rather than a role which you'd have to get
through the UserDirectoryService. The second is a role within an
authorization group (site realm) which you can get through the site or
group membership.

But in almost all cases you should check the user's effective
permissions rather than their role. Even if you want to figure out
whether they're an instructor or TA, you can use the "role marker"
permissions such as section.role.ta. If you hard-code role name checks,
then you risk the tool/service not working in other deployments where
the role names may be different.

Regards
Stephen 
 

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>>> Mustansar Mehmood <mustansar at rice.edu> 11/22/2011 7:03 PM >>> 
Hi,
     Sakai users seem to have two types of roles
1-Assigned to them in Sakai in general when a user is registered 
(Student/TA/Instructor)
2-Role assigned to user for a particular site for instance a teacher
may 
be taking another class as a student or a student might be TA in
another 
class.
I am trying to figure out  a way for getting role assigned to each user

in a particular site. SiteService API doesn't seem to give that out or

may be i am overseeing some details.
Thanks,
Mustansar

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