Creating Users

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From: Weintraub, David [mailto:david.weintraubbofasecurities.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 2:00 PM
To: Scott Lavender; p4perlperforce.com
Subject: RE: [p4perl] Creating Users

You don't need the "-f" in the FetchUsers method. In fact, I'm not even sure it takes it. Try:

 

$user = $p4->FetchUser("testUser");

 

or

 

$user = $p4->Run("users", "-o", "testUser");

 

Which is the equivalent. If you need the "-f" parameter, you'll have to do this:

 

$user = $p4->Run("users", "-of", "testUser");

 

Fetch user will also return a new user too, so you can't use it to test to see if a user already exists. Use:

 

$userList = $p4->FetchUsers();

 

or

 

$userList = $p4->Run("users", "-o");

 

if the first method doesn't work. Then, you have to parse what was returned to see if the user actually exists. I'm not 100% sure what this will return. You'll have to play around with it a bit. If you also set P4->Tagged(), this should return a reference to an array of hashes.

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From: p4perl-bouncesperforce.com [mailto:p4perl-bouncesperforce.com] On Behalf Of Scott Lavender
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:27 PM
To: p4perlperforce.com
Subject: [p4perl] Creating Users

I need to write a script to create users. But, I am having problems performing a fetch on the user command. First I thought of using this:

 

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require P4;

my $p4 = new P4;

 

$p4->ParseForms();
$p4->Connect or die ( "Failed to connect to Perforce Server" );

my $fetched = $p4->FetchUser( "-f testUser" );

...

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Nothing is returned by the call to FetchUser. I assume it has to do with the force option. Is there a way to do this when creating new users?

 

Thanks.....

 

Scott Lavender | SCM Specialist | Visiprise | office: 770.619.4166 | www.visiprise.com

 

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