Programatically assign roles to RTC Users -- Using Plain Java

I would suggest to set up the dev client according to https://jazz.net/library/article/1000 . Then make your project a Plugin Project. Then you have the PDE and can search for examples for the call in the RTC Eclipse Client (SDK).

If you closely look into my example, it shows the code below. So you have to iterate the roles, get an IRole type element by some criteria, have a new IRole[] variable and add the role. You can also use an ArrayList<IRole> and then get the array from that. You need to pass an IRole[] as far as I can tell.

    IRole[] contributorRoles = process.getContributorRoles(contributor,
                processArea, null);
        for (int j = 0; j < contributorRoles.length; j++) {
            IRole role = (IRole) contributorRoles[j];
            System.out.print(role.getId() + " ");
        }

I found this API call:

    /**
     * Appends the given roles to the collection of roles assigned to the given
     * contributor.
     * 

     * If any of the given roles are already assigned to the given
     * contributor, those roles will be ignored. Callers wishing to reorder
     * role assignments should call setRoleAssignments(...) instead.
     * 

     * Roles passed into this method should be a subset of available roles
     * for this process area retrieved by calling either:
     * com.ibm.team.process.service.IServerProcess#getRoles(IProcessArea) or
     * com.ibm.team.process.client.IClientProcess#getRoles(IProcessArea,
     * IProgressMonitor)
     * 
     * @param contributor the contributor whose roles to assign
     * @param roles the roles to append
     */
    public void addRoleAssignments(IContributorHandle contributor, IRole[] roles);

The code above assumes you have the roles specified in the process specification.
If you have user/role mappings in the CSV file you would have to

• Read the CSV file, user team, roles
• Find the Project Area, team area, user(contributor), add the user if he is not already member, get the users roles, map the roes to the desired ones. If there are roles missing, read the available roles from the process area and add the role  with the desired ID or name to the process area for the specific user.
  

As a heads up, I've found "addRoleAssignments" to be unreliable, and actually remove random roles while also not setting the new one.  For example, when calling it with a new "projectmanager" role for my own user, the first time it removed my "Administrator" role assignment, and the second time it removed "team-member".  Neither time added the new role.

setRoleAssignments works fine, however.