IUser

It would be useful to have a method/primitive that expresses an ArcGIS User. This feels similar to the IPortal and getSelf() method in arcgis-rest-request.

Note that an IPortal returned by request.getSelf() includes a user property, but this object doesn’t appear to be a fully-qualified User per the REST API spec.

User spec https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/user.htm

The following works fine today:

import { request } from '@esri/arcgis-rest-request';

// session === UserSession();

// use request module to fetch user profile
request(`${session.portal}/community/users/${session.username}`, {
  authentication: session
})

[jgravois]

@tomwayson and i both ultimately got our way.

v1.1.2 included this:

import { getUser } from '@esri/arcgis-rest-users';

getUser("jsmith") // returns IUser

in v1.4.0 we also introduced support for

import { UserSession } from '@esri/arcgis-rest-auth';

const session = new UserSession({
  username: "jsmith",
  password: "123456"
})

session.getUser() // returns IUser and caches the response

[tomwayson]

I feel like we need a new package (@esri/arcgis-rest-users) to manage users. It would have getUser() and other functions for all the operations under the “Community - User” left nav here.

IUser itself will probably end up in common types and shared amongst the auth and groups packages.