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jamesyoung
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Retrieve Roles API for generating token

When generating a token you now can pass in the Role(s) to use for RLS. How can you retrieve the Roles programmatically? Is that possible?

Here is how you generate a token using a role:

var generateTokenRequestParameters = new GenerateTokenRequest("View", null, identities: new List<EffectiveIdentity>
{ new EffectiveIdentity(username: "username", roles: new List<string> { "roleA", "roleB" }, datasets: new List<string> { "datasetId" }) });
var tokenResponse = await client.Reports.GenerateTokenInGroupAsync("groupId", "reportId", generateTokenRequestParameters);

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-developer-embedded-rls/

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Eric_Zhang
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@jamesyoung wrote:

When generating a token you now can pass in the Role(s) to use for RLS. How can you retrieve the Roles programmatically? Is that possible?

Here is how you generate a token using a role:

var generateTokenRequestParameters = new GenerateTokenRequest("View", null, identities: new List<EffectiveIdentity>
{ new EffectiveIdentity(username: "username", roles: new List<string> { "roleA", "roleB" }, datasets: new List<string> { "datasetId" }) });
var tokenResponse = await client.Reports.GenerateTokenInGroupAsync("groupId", "reportId", generateTokenRequestParameters);

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-developer-embedded-rls/


@jamesyoung

AFAIK, it is not possible, there's no correlated REST API that can get RLS roles. You can check this idea REST API for managing roles of datasets and vote it up.

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