List Permissions

To list the permissions resource of a particular a database, perform a GET operation on the permissions URI path, which returns a list of permissions for the user. All of the resource tokens are recreated for the respective permissions returned as part of the response. The new tokens have the default validity period (one hour) unless it is overridden.

Request

Method Request URI Description
GET https://{databaseaccount}.documents.azure.com/dbs/{db-id}/users/{user-name}/permissions 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 DBREST request headers for headers that are used by all Azure Cosmos DB requests.

Body

None.

Response

Headers

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

Code Description
200 Ok The operation was successful.

Body

Property Description
_rid This is the resource ID of the user who owns the permissions.
_count This property shows the number of users returned as part of list operation.
Permissions This the array containing the permissions returned as part of the list operation.
id The user generated unique name for the permission.
permissionMode The access mode on the resource for the user: All or Read. All provides read, write, and delete access to a resource. Read restricts the user to read access on the resource.
resource The full addressable path of the resource associated with the permission. For example, dbs/volcanodb/colls/volcano1.
_rid This 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 This is a system generated property. It specifies the last updated timestamp of the resource. The value is a timestamp.
_self This is a system generated property. It is the unique addressable URI for the resource.
_etag This is a system generated property that represents the resource etag required for optimistic concurrency control.
_token This is a system generated resource token for the particular resource and user.
{  
    "_rid": "Sl8fAG8cXgA=",  
    "Permissions": [{  
        "id": "a_permission",  
        "permissionMode": "Read",  
        "resource": "dbs/volcanodb/colls/volcano1",  
        "_rid": "Sl8fAG8cXgBn6Ju2GqNsAA==",  
        "_ts": 1449604760,  
        "_self": "dbs\/Sl8fAA==\/users\/Sl8fAG8cXgA=\/permissions\/Sl8fAG8cXgBn6Ju2GqNsAA==\/",  
        "_etag": "\"00000e00-0000-0000-0000-566736980000\"",  
        "_token": "type=resource&ver=1&sig=lxKlPHeqlIx2\/J02rFs3jw==;20MwFhNUO9xNOuglK9gyL18Mt5xIhbN48pzSq6FaR\/7sKFtGd6GaxCooIoPP6rYxRHUeCabHOFkbIeT4ercXk\/F1FG70QkQTD9CxDqNJx3NImgZJWErK1NlEjxkpFDV5uslhpJ4Y3JBnc72\/vlmR95TibFS0rC\/cdND0uRvoOOWXZYvVAJFKEUKyy3GTlYOxY1nKT313ZCOSUQF7kldjo9DE3XEBf8cct1uNKMILImo=;"  
    }],  
    "_count": 1  
}  
  

Example

GET https://contosomarketing.documents.azure.com/dbs/volcanodb/users/a_user/permissions HTTP/1.1  
x-ms-date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:01:24 GMT  
authorization: type%3dmaster%26ver%3d1.0%26sig%3dIBouMlVA5x5WqHIydZ0OSYHRPAkwoliqqkAJCCeNhjw%3d  
Cache-Control: no-cache  
User-Agent: contoso/1.0  
x-ms-version: 2015-08-06  
x-ms-max-item-count: 3  
Accept: application/json  
Host: contosomarketing.documents.azure.com  
Connection: Keep-Alive  
  
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/permissions  
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0  
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000  
x-ms-last-state-change-utc: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 06:37:26.906 GMT  
x-ms-resource-quota: permissions=2000000;  
x-ms-resource-usage: permissions=1;  
x-ms-item-count: 1  
x-ms-schemaversion: 1.1  
x-ms-alt-content-path: dbs/volcanodb/users/a_user  
x-ms-content-path: Sl8fAG8cXgA=  
x-ms-session-token: 866  
x-ms-request-charge: 2  
x-ms-serviceversion: version=1.5.57.3  
x-ms-activity-id: fb0095e8-ab6b-4423-bd6f-7af9f6f6ff68  
Set-Cookie: x-ms-session-token=866; Domain=contosomarketing.documents.azure.com; Path=/dbs/volcanodb/users/a_user  
x-ms-gatewayversion: version=1.5.57.3  
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:01:58 GMT  
Content-Length: 629  
  
{  
    "_rid": "Sl8fAG8cXgA=",  
    "Permissions": [{  
        "id": "a_permission",  
        "permissionMode": "Read",  
        "resource": "dbs/volcanodb/colls/volcano1",  
        "_rid": "Sl8fAG8cXgBn6Ju2GqNsAA==",  
        "_ts": 1449604760,  
        "_self": "dbs\/Sl8fAA==\/users\/Sl8fAG8cXgA=\/permissions\/Sl8fAG8cXgBn6Ju2GqNsAA==\/",  
        "_etag": "\"00000e00-0000-0000-0000-566736980000\"",  
        "_token": "type=resource&ver=1&sig=lxKlPHeqlIx2\/J02rFs3jw==;20MwFhNUO9xNOuglK9gyL18Mt5xIhbN48pzSq6FaR\/7sKFtGd6GaxCooIoPP6rYxRHUeCabHOFkbIeT4ercXk\/F1FG70QkQTD9CxDqNJx3NImgZJWErK1NlEjxkpFDV5uslhpJ4Y3JBnc72\/vlmR95TibFS0rC\/cdND0uRvoOOWXZYvVAJFKEUKyy3GTlYOxY1nKT313ZCOSUQF7kldjo9DE3XEBf8cct1uNKMILImo=;"  
    }],  
    "_count": 1  
}  
  

See Also