DoesDomainUserExist

The DoesDomainUserExist method returns a Boolean indicating whether the specified user exists.

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Usage

Privileges. This method requires Read privileges.

Parameters.

The parameters for the DoesDomainUserExist method are described in the following table.
Parameter	Data Type	Value
sessionToken	String	Valid sessionToken returned by the general.CreateUserSession method
username	String	User name to search
usersDomain	String	Name of the domain to which the users and groups belong

Output. This method returns a Boolean value. If the user exists, it is set to true, and if the user does not exist, it is set to false. If there is a failure, the API issues an exception.

Samples

Sample C# Call

bFoundFlag = accesscontrol.DoesDomainUserExist(sSessionToken, “username”, “domain”);

Sample Request

The following is a sample SOAP 1.1 request and response. The placeholders shown would be replaced with actual values. SOAP 1.2 also is supported.

POST /archer/ws/accesscontrol.asmx HTTP/1.1

Host: staging

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: length

SOAPAction: "http://archer-tech.com/webservices/DoesDomainUserExist"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<soap:Body>

<sessionToken>string</sessionToken>

<userName>string</userName>

<usersDomain>string</usersDomain>

</DoesDomainUserExist>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK