Is there a variable for current user in Sharepoint 2013 restful api?

Question

In sp2013 restful call, I have this link

http://mysite/_api/sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager/getuserprofilepropertyfor(accountname=@v, propertyname='Office')?@v='aq\test'

And this works with managed properties, but I don't want to supply the actual username for the current user. Is there some variable like @me or something I can use to mean the current user?

Thanks

Answer 1

Although I couldn't find a way to retrieve the custom user profiles by using the user profiles REST api since the properties are returned in an array and AFAIK no existing method exists to filter them from the URL but since some of the OOB user profile properties are stored to the user information list, you can maybe try this:

var userId = _spPageContextInfo.userId;
var url = "https://siteUrl/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('User Information List')/items("+userId+")?$select=Office"

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Answer 2

Try http://site/_api/web/currentuser. This should return the current logged in user that is used to send the REST query.

Answer 3

If you want to get user profile properties for a current user via REST API, then you can either pass user id and get all properties including your own custom or use method GetMyProperties.

Code where you pass userId.

userInfo.UserProfileProperties.results[10] is a bit of code where you get available user profile properties. If I am not wrong then custom properties will be at the last indexes like 60, 61 this you need to identify.

function getUserInfoSuccess (data) {
    var userInfo = data.d;
    alert(userInfo.UserProfileProperties.results[10]);     
}

function getUserName() {
    var clientContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current(),
        userAccount = clientContext.get_web().getUserById(_spPageContextInfo.userId);

    clientContext.load(userAccount); 
    clientContext.executeQueryAsync(function () {

        var index = userAccount.get_loginName().indexOf('|') + 1,
            loginName = userAccount.get_loginName().substring(index);

        jQuery.ajax({
            url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/getpropertiesfor(@v)?@v='" + loginName + "'",
            type: "GET",
            headers: {
                "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
            },
            success: function (data) {
                getUserInfoSuccess(data);
            },
            error: function () {
                alert("Failed to get user. Please refresh page.");
            }
        });
    },
        function () {
            alert("Failed to get user. Please refresh page.");
        });
}

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Usage of GetMyProperties

1) Get all properties of current user:

http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties

2) Get single property of current user:

http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties/PictureUrl

OR

http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties?$select=PictureUrl

3) Get Multiple Properties for the current user:

http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties?$select=PictureUrl,AccountName

For more details refer SharePoint 2013: Get UserProfile Properties with REST API