Role

Role( name, [database] )
Role( name )
ScopedRole( name, database )
Role( name, [database] )
Role( name, [database] )
role( name, [database] )
Role( name, [database] )

Description

The Role function returns a Reference for the specified user-defined role’s name in the specified child database. If a child database is not specified, the role returned belongs to the current database.

When a child database is specified, an admin key must be used to call Role (server or client keys, or ABAC tokens, cannot be used to access a child database).

Also, Go does not support optional function parameters, nor function overloading. To specify a child database using the Go driver, call the ScopedRole function instead of Role.

Parameters

Parameter Type Definition and requirements

name

String

The name of a role.

database

Reference

Optional - A Reference to a child database. If not specified, the current database is used.

A Reference to a child database.

Optional - A Reference to a child database. If not specified, the current database is used.

Optional - A Reference to a child database. If not specified, the current database is used.

Optional - A Reference to a child database. If not specified, the current database is used.

Optional - A Reference to a child database. If not specified, the current database is used.

Optional - A Reference to a child database. If not specified, the current database is used.

Returns

A Reference to a user-defined role with the specified name, in the specified child database (or the current database if database is not specified).

Examples

  1. The following query gets a Reference to the user-defined role named "admin" in the current database:

    try
{
    Value result = await client.Query(
        Role("admin")
    );
    Console.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"ERROR: {e.Message}");
}
    RefV(id = "admin", collection = RefV(id = "roles"))
    result, err := client.Query(
	f.Role("admin"))

if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
} else {
	fmt.Println(result)
}
    {admin 0xc00016e090 0xc00016e090 <nil>}
    System.out.println(
    client.query(
        Role("admin")
    ).get());
    ref(id = "admin", collection = ref(id = "roles"))
    client.query(
  q.Role('admin')
)
.then((result) => console.log(result))
.catch((err) => console.error(
  'Error: [%s] %s: %s',
  err.name,
  err.message,
  err.errors()[0].description,
))
    Role("admin")
    result = client.query(
  q.role("admin")
)
print(result)
    Ref(id=admin, collection=Ref(id=roles))
    Role('admin')
    Role("admin")
    Query metrics:

    •    bytesIn:  16

    •   bytesOut:  73

    • computeOps:   1

    •    readOps:   0

    •   writeOps:   0

    •  readBytes:   0

    • writeBytes:   0

    •  queryTime: 4ms

    •    retries:   0

  2. The following query gets a Reference to the user-defined role named "admin" in a child database named "child_db":

    try
{
    Value result = await client.Query(
        Role("admin", Database("child_db"))
    );
    Console.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"ERROR: {e.Message}");
}
    RefV(id = "admin", collection = RefV(id = "roles"), database = RefV(id = "child_db", collection = RefV(id = "databases")))
    result, err := client.Query(
	f.ScopedRole("admin", f.Database("child_db")))

if err != nil {
	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
} else {
	fmt.Println(result)
}
    {admin 0xc00011e300 0xc00011e300 0xc00011e360}
    System.out.println(
    client.query(
        Role("admin", Database("child_db"))
    ).get());
    ref(id = "admin", collection = ref(id = "roles"), database = ref(id = "child_db", collection = ref(id = "databases")))
    client.query(
  q.Role('admin', q.Database('child_db'))
)
.then((result) => console.log(result))
.catch((err) => console.error(
  'Error: [%s] %s: %s',
  err.name,
  err.message,
  err.errors()[0].description,
))
    Role("admin", Database("child_db"))
    result = client.query(
  q.role("admin", q.database("child_db"))
)
print(result)
    Ref(id=admin, collection=Ref(id=roles), database=Ref(id=child_db, collection=Ref(id=databases)))
    Role('admin', Database('child_db'))
    Role("admin", Database("child_db"))
    Query metrics:

    •    bytesIn:   48

    •   bytesOut:  152

    • computeOps:    1

    •    readOps:    0

    •   writeOps:    0

    •  readBytes:  155

    • writeBytes:    0

    •  queryTime: 10ms

    •    retries:    0

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