CosmosDatabase.CreateUserAsync Method

Definition

Namespace:

Azure.Cosmos

Assembly:

Azure.Cosmos.dll

Package:

Azure.Cosmos v4.0.0-preview3

Creates a user as an asynchronous operation in the Azure Cosmos service.

public abstract System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Azure.Cosmos.UserResponse> CreateUserAsync (string id, Azure.Cosmos.RequestOptions requestOptions = default, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

abstract member CreateUserAsync : string * Azure.Cosmos.RequestOptions * System.Threading.CancellationToken -> System.Threading.Tasks.Task<Azure.Cosmos.UserResponse>

Public MustOverride Function CreateUserAsync (id As String, Optional requestOptions As RequestOptions = Nothing, Optional cancellationToken As CancellationToken = Nothing) As Task(Of UserResponse)

Parameters

id

String

The cosmos user id

requestOptions

RequestOptions

(Optional) The options for the user request RequestOptions

cancellationToken

CancellationToken

(Optional) CancellationToken representing request cancellation.

Returns

Task<UserResponse>

A Task containing a UserResponse which wraps a UserProperties containing the read resource record.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

If id is not set.

CosmosException

This exception can encapsulate many different types of errors. To determine the specific error always look at the StatusCode property. Some common codes you may get when creating a user are:

StatusCode	Reason for exception
400	BadRequest - This means something was wrong with the request supplied. It is likely that an id was not supplied for the new user.
409	Conflict - This means a UserProperties with an id matching the id you supplied already existed.

Examples

UserResponse response = await this.cosmosDatabase.CreateUserAsync(Guid.NewGuid().ToString());