Get a User

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To retrieve a specific user resource within a specific database, perform a GET operation on the user.

Request

Method Request URI Description
GET https://{databaseaccount}.documents.azure.com/dbs/{db-id}/users/{user-name} Note that the {databaseaccount} is the name of the Azure Cosmos DB account created under your subscription. The {db-id} value is the user generated name/ID of the database, not the system generated ID (rid). The {user-name} value is the name of the user.

Headers

See Common Azure Cosmos DB REST request headers for headers that are used by all Cosmos DB requests.

Body

None.

Response

Headers

See Common Azure Cosmos DB REST response headers for headers that are returned by all Cosmos DB responses.

Status codes

The following table lists common status codes returned by this operation. For a full list of status codes, see HTTP Status Codes.

HTTP status code Description
200 OK The operation was successful.
404 Not Found The user is no longer a resource, that is, the user was deleted.

Body

Property Description
id The unique user generated name for the user.
_rid It is a system generated property. The resource ID (_rid) is a unique identifier that is also hierarchical per the resource stack on the resource model. It is used internally for placement of and navigation to the user resource.
_ts It is a system generated property. It specifies the last updated timestamp of the resource. The value is a timestamp.
_self It is a system generated property. It is the unique addressable URI for the resource.
_etag It is a system generated property representing the resource etag required for optimistic concurrency control.
_permissions It is a system generated property that specifies the addressable path of the permissions resource. 
{  
    "id": "a_user",  
    "_rid": "Sl8fAFEKCQA=",  
    "_ts": 1449603893,  
    "_self": "dbs\/Sl8fAA==\/users\/Sl8fAFEKCQA=\/",  
    "_etag": "\"00000b00-0000-0000-0000-566733350000\"",  
    "_permissions": "permissions\/"  
}

Example

GET https://contosomarketing.documents.azure.com/dbs/volcanodb/users/a_user HTTP/1.1  
x-ms-date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:49:05 GMT  
authorization: type%3dmaster%26ver%3d1.0%26sig%3deQXTD1sMkhhn9657uwqO72KCPRDnlQkk0emPfJh0biw%3d  
Cache-Control: no-cache  
User-Agent: contoso/1.0  
x-ms-version: 2015-08-06  
Accept: application/json  
Host: contosomarketing.documents.azure.com  
  

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok  
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache  
Pragma: no-cache  
Content-Type: application/json  
Content-Location: https://contosomarketing.documents.azure.com/dbs/volcanodb/users/a_user  
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0  
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000  
x-ms-last-state-change-utc: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 02:25:34.442 GMT  
etag: "00000b00-0000-0000-0000-566733350000"  
x-ms-resource-quota: users=500000;  
x-ms-resource-usage: users=2;  
x-ms-schemaversion: 1.1  
x-ms-alt-content-path: dbs/volcanodb  
x-ms-content-path: Sl8fAA==  
x-ms-session-token: 862  
x-ms-request-charge: 2  
x-ms-serviceversion: version=1.5.57.3  
x-ms-activity-id: 4b2e6bdd-6cc7-423e-b8b1-32781166e0b1  
x-ms-gatewayversion: version=1.5.57.3  
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:49:05 GMT  
Content-Length: 183  
  
{  
    "id": "a_user",  
    "_rid": "Sl8fAFEKCQA=",  
    "_ts": 1449603893,  
    "_self": "dbs\/Sl8fAA==\/users\/Sl8fAFEKCQA=\/",  
    "_etag": "\"00000b00-0000-0000-0000-566733350000\"",  
    "_permissions": "permissions\/"  
}

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