system.user.getUser() Case Sensitive

Ignition
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Ran my self around in circles for a hour because I could not find a user with system.user.getUser() although it most certainly existed in my user source!

Long story short it appears that this function is case-sensitive for the user name. Is there any workarounds to get around this? Unfortunately for this specific user source, I have no control over the case of the username.

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I think you’ll need to iterate over the userList. Here’s an example with two users with varying username capitalization:

def matchUser(userIn):
  # get all users
  users = system.user.getUsers('')
  
  foundFlag = 0
  
  # compare each user by lowercase
  for user in users:
    username = user.get(user.Username)
    if username.lower() == userIn.lower():
      foundFlag = 1
      break

  if foundFlag == 1:
    return system.user.getUser('',username)
  else:
    return 'User not found.'

    
user2find = 'JoRdAnC'
print matchUser(user2find)

user2find = 'gailw'
print matchUser(user2find)

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I was afraid that was the answer. I have 5K+ users in some sources, so trying to avoid the iteration if possible, but this will certainly work. Thanks.

4

Could tidy it up a bit with a list comprehension:

users = system.user.getUsers('')
usernames = [u.get('username').lower() for u in users]
user2find ='myuser'
if user2find in usernames:
	return True       # or do something else
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5

Returns user using a dictionary lookup:

def getUserIgnoreCase(user2find):
	users = system.user.getUsers('')
	usernames = [u.get('username').lower() for u in users]
	usersdict = dict(zip(usernames, users))
	if user2find.lower() in usersdict:
		return usersdict[user2find.lower()]
	else:
		return False
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6

Just checking in on this. Seems like this is a bug on the Ignition side since a user can login without having to match case. Are there plans to make this not case sensitive?

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I think case sensitivity must be maintained because whether or not that matters is a detail of the underlying UserSourceProfile. The internal one, for example, prevents you from creating duplicate users in a case insensitive manner, but that is only enforced in the UI.

That some profiles will authenticate a user in a case insensitive manner is also a detail of that type of profile.

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But why is the gateway page and all launchers and even the login page for clients ignoring case sensitivity then?

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None of these things ignore case sensitivity - they pass the credentials as provided to the underlying user source implementation, which may choose to ignore case sensitivity.

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ah okay. it would be nice, if the getUser() could do that as well : )

is there a way to fetch that information from the user source?