Sharepoint 2010 CSOM Get user and his groups by login name

Question

I want to get a user and all his groups by a login name. Easy to do in Sharepoint 2013.

        clientContext.Load(site, l => l.RootWeb.SiteUsers, l => l.RootWeb.Id, l => l.Id);
        clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

        var user = site.RootWeb.SiteUsers.GetByLoginName(loginName);
        clientContext.Load(user, l => l.Groups, l => l.Id, l => l.LoginName);
        clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

As both the SiteUsers as well as the Groups Property don't exist in SP2010 i have no idea how to accomplish this. Any ideas who i can get the needed information?

The only information i can use is the login name, CurrentUser or something similar won't work.

EDIT: I have found a way to get the User object via CurrentUser, nevertheless i can't find a reliable way to get the groups for this user. I can iterate through all groups of the site and check if they contain the user. But then i have to also resolve all AD Groups and consider special AD Groups like "NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users". Makes the whole process rater slow. Is there a faster way to do this in SP2010?

Answer 1

You could consider the following approach to retrieve user groups using SharePoint 2010 CSOM:

• retrieve site groups using Web.SiteGroups Property
• exclude those groups where user is not a member

Example

var user = site.RootWeb.CurrentUser;
var siteGroups = site.RootWeb.SiteGroups; 
ctx.Load(user);
ctx.Load(siteGroups, gcol => gcol.Include(g => g.LoginName,g => g.Users));
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
var userGroups = siteGroups.ToList().Where(g => g.Users.ToList().Exists(u => u.Id == user.Id)); //filter groups