Get SharePoint User JSOM

Question

I want to get a User via JSOM.

The User is not the current user. The object I want to get should be SP.User (not String or anything) I want to get the User by asking for his login ("domain\username") and get back the SP.User object.

I found some solutions using the PeopleManager. But I'm not sure if this is the correct way. Because if I get the PreferredName, isn't this just a string?

Thanks

Answer 1

SP.Web.siteUsers property gets the collection of all users that belong to the site collection:

var value = SP.Web.get_siteUsers ()

How to get User client Object by email

function getUser(userName,Success,Error)
{
   var context = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
   var web = context.get_web();
   var user = web.get_siteUsers().getByEmail(userName);


   context.load(user);
   context.executeQueryAsync(function(){
       Success(user);  
     },
     Error
   );
}




//Usage
getUser('[email protected]',function(user){
       console.log('User Id: ' + user.ID);
    },
    function(sender,args){
       console.log(args.get_message());
    }
);

Note: in order to retrieve User by LoginName replace the method getByEmail with getByLoginName:

var user = web.get_siteUsers().getByLoginName(userName);