Get Username from User ID in a Python Functions Repository

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Hello! I’m hoping to get some help with a problem that I can’t seem to solve using Python functions.

Context

I’m building a page in Workshop to manage user permissions, which are stored in a Ontology object. One of the requirements for the “create permission” form is to have a dropdown to select a user. This is easily solved with the standard User Selector Widget.

The Problem

The User Selector widget outputs the selected user’s User ID (e.g., 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000). However, for a better user experience, I need the user’s Username.

What I’ve Tried

My first thought was to create a simple Python function that takes the User ID and returns the username using the FoundryClient:

from ontology_sdk import FoundryClient
from functions.api import function

@function()
def get_username(user_id: str) -> str:
    client = FoundryClient()
    # Attempt to get the user object by their ID
    user = client.users.get_user(user_id)
    return user.username

However, when I run this, I get the following error, which suggests that the users attribute is not part of the FoundryClient available in this context.

AttributeError: ‘FoundryClient’ object has no attribute ‘users’

The Question

I’ve seen multiple topics on the forums that solve this using Typescript functions, but I am required to use a Python Functions Repository for this project.

Is there a standard or simple way to get a user’s details (like their username) from a given User ID inside a Python function?

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You can try the foundry-platform-sdk.
There the admin module has a function to get the user. I am not sure how it works though considering that this function does not work in the Ontology but in the code repository that I am working in…

from ontology_sdk import FoundryClient
import foundry_sdk

@function()
def get_current_user_id() -> str:
    ontology_sdk_client = FoundryClient()
    token = ontology_sdk_client.auth.get_token().access_token
    auth = foundry_sdk.UserTokenAuth(token)
    client = foundry_sdk.FoundryClient(auth=auth, hostname="<domain>")
    user = client.admin.User.get_current()

    return user.id

If I try this, the error message is:
raise ConnectionError(str(e)) from e foundry_sdk._errors.connection_error.ConnectionError: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Any idea regarding this? I was already quite happy that I could get the user without putting it in as an argument of the function.

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It worked for me without errors with the small modification shown below to test my use case.

import foundry_sdk
from ontology_sdk import FoundryClient

@function()
def get_current_user_id() -> str:
    ontology_sdk_client = FoundryClient()
    token = ontology_sdk_client.auth.get_token().access_token
    auth = foundry_sdk.UserTokenAuth(token)
    client = foundry_sdk.FoundryClient(auth=auth, hostname="<YOUR-DOMAIN>")
    my_id = client.admin.User.get_current().id  #modifed
    user = client.admin.User.get(my_id)  #modifed

    return user.username  #modifed
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