g_user.hasRoles() vs. g_user.hasRoleFromList

[alynch]

I'm trying to determine when, or why, you would want to use one of the above methods over the other. From what I can gather from the GlideUser documentation, both of the above methods can check for multiple roles. 

[Alexander Grisb]

The only thing I would be able to think of is it might take more processing power under the hood to parse through multiple lists with g_user.hasRoles(). Depending on how something is coded, it may be able to do something, but it might be faster. Another reason could be that one of these is a relic from an era where both were needed and the hasRoles() method become more common and popular so it was modified for that. There's not much telling on them. I would use whichever one you find preferential, or you could do a test with both of them in background scripts to see which is faster, although, it's probably negligible. 

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Alexander

[Uncle Rob]

Docs seems to think hasRole is singular and hasRoleFromList can evaluate multiple.

[phantom7]

Hey alynch,

g_user.hasRoles() - Takes no arguments. Checks if the user has any role. will return false if the user has 0 roles and true if the user has 1 or more roles

g_user.hasRoleFromList() - Takes an array of roles as argument. Will return true if the user has any of the roles passed to the function.

Thank you

[phantom7]

Just to add that you can add a true to g_user.hasRoles(true); as argument, This will return true if the user does not have any of the default roles like snc_internal and snc_external. but I have never used it like this.

Thank you