LookupUserId

The LookupUserId method returns a user ID from the system.

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Usage

Privileges. This method requires Read privileges.

Parameters.

The parameters for the LookupUserId method are described in the following table.
Parameter	Data Type	Value
sessionToken	String	Valid sessionToken returned by the general.CreateUserSession method
userName	String	Provides the user name of the user as returned by the accesscontrol.LookupUserName method

Output. This method returns an integer. If the method is successful, the value is the corresponding user ID. If there is a failure, the API issues an exception.

Samples

Sample C# Code

iUserID = accesscontrol.LookupUserId(sSessionToken, “username”);

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/LookupUserId"

<?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>

</LookupUserId>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK