How to get a list of valid users

Question

I was trying to get a list of valid users from team server and I had no success. I found a example in C# and I tryied to convert o java, I didn't find some corresponding classes like GroupSecurityService and TeamFoundationServer. How I can do this?

this is what a want to do in java:

	private TeamFoundationServer tfs;
	public void ShowValidUsers(WorkItem wi)
        {
            WorkItem workItem = wi;
            // show basic information
            Console.WriteLine("Select Work Item {0} ({1})", workItem.Id.ToString(), workItem.Title);

            // get the Group Security Service
            IGroupSecurityService gsService = (IGroupSecurityService)tfs.GetService(typeof(IGroupSecurityService));
            // retrieve all application groups (by default: Contributors, Project Administrators, Build Services and Readers)
            // for the project this Work Item belongs to. Application groups do not contain member information.
            Identity[] applicationGroups = gsService.ListApplicationGroups(workItem.Project.Uri.AbsoluteUri);
            // for each application group
            foreach (Identity applicationGroup in applicationGroups)
            {
                // unless this is the Readers group (By default Readers do not have permissions to add/edit Work Items)
                if (applicationGroup.DisplayName != "Readers")
                {
                    // retrieve the application group again (this time with members information)
                    Identity[] groupContainer = gsService.ReadIdentities(SearchFactor.Sid, new string[] { applicationGroup.Sid }, QueryMembership.Expanded);
                    // for each group (container contains only one group)
                    foreach (Identity group in groupContainer)
                    {
                        // if this group has any members
                        if (group.Members != null)
                        {
                            // for each member in this group
                            foreach (string projectMemberSid in group.Members)
                            {
                                // get member(valid user) details
                                Identity validUser = gsService.ReadIdentity(SearchFactor.Sid, projectMemberSid, QueryMembership.None);
                                Console.WriteLine("valid user: {0}", validUser.DisplayName);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Answer 1

Hi,

you can retrieve the valid TFS users through querying the work item meta data for each team project.

Please let me know if you need a code sample on how to do that.

Thanks

Mireille

Answer 2

Thank you Mireille.

I would appreciate an example. I tried to make a query here but i didn't work. It brings just the user which the work item is assigned to. I don't know how to get the total list of users.

WorkItemCollection workItemCollection = workItemClient.query(
        " SELECT [System.Id], [System.WorkItemType]," +
        " [System.State], [System.AssignedTo], [System.Title] " +
        " FROM WorkItems " +
        " WHERE [System.TeamProject] = '" + "e-FORMS " +
        "'AND [System.State] = 'ACTIVE" +
        "' ORDER BY [System.WorkItemType], [System.Id]");
WorkItem workItemClient = workItemCollection.getWorkItem(0);

Answer 3

Thank you very much Mireille!

After querying I can get list of users:

workItem.getFields().getField("Assigned To").getFieldDefinition().getAllowedValues();