How to get user profile image via API

Aaron Allsbrook (71●1●5●7) | asked Oct 15 '12, 7:13 p.m.

                                 I have been working to externalize information about my users on an RTC 3.0.1 system via API.  When I make a call to https://<HOST>/jazz/oslc/ I get back a nice response that includes

			<rtc_cm:User rdf:resource="https://<HOST>/jazz/oslc/users/_tKYZEArvEd-_CvlJWZEkGw">
		
			<rtc_cm:userId>aaron</rtc_cm:userId>
		
			<dc:title>Aaron</dc:title>
		
			<rtc_cm:emailAddress>aaron@<HOST>.com</rtc_cm:emailAddress>
		
			<rtc_cm:photo rdf:resource="https://<HOST>/jazz/resource/content/_xD8j4BV3EeKkj9-_5VhsPg"/>
		
			<dc:modified>2012-10-13T20:51:31.293Z</dc:modified>
		
			<rtc_cm:modifiedBy rdf:resource="https://<HOST>/jazz/oslc/users/_KGRY4CFWEdq-WY5y7lROQw"/>
		
		</rtc_cm:User>
	
	When I attempt to load the photo via its rdf:resource I first get a 400 back from the server and then get stuck with an HTML response (not image) that says

		You have followed a direct link to content hosted in a Jazz server. This page has been presented to ensure that a malicious website cannot use cleverly crafted content to circumvent security. If you would like to access the content, please use the link below.
	
	On the page there is also a link to "Download content" .  Clicking that link seems to set a cookie in the environment that says its ok to load that image from there on out (or its being statically cached by the browser).  

	The question is, is there a way to programmatically get past this html intercept response and actually retrieve the image with out a user click.   

	The only thing I am noticing is that it appears the reference to the link in the response message is relative ( /resource/content/_asdfasdfasd versus my link which is https://<SERVER>/jazz/osls/resource/content/_asdfasdfasdf

	The other thing that may be an issue is the referrer value obviously changes on the headers.  Spoofing the referrer looks to be not a good thing.

	so, is it possible to load the user photo programatically?  If not, what is the use case where this user information is valuable.

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Aaron Allsbrook commented Oct 16 '12, 3:41 p.m.

Tried some additional testing today with RTC 4. It appears to not have the security prevention intercept on it there. Consequently I am able to pull the images correctly in RTC 4.

Perhaps this is a bug in RTC 3?

Mike Shkolnik commented Sep 05 '13, 5:50 p.m. | edited Sep 05 '13, 5:52 p.m.

Aaron, I am having the same issue trying to pull photos from RTC 4.0.1 through the API. I have tried two different methods. The one you show above, which is based on a resource ID of the photo, and this method, based on the itemId of the user:

https://SERVER:PORT/jazz/service/com.ibm.team.apt.internal.service.rest.IResourcePlanningRestService/workEnvironment?contributorId=USERITEMID

Unfortunately, I get the same results with both methods, the "you have found a direct link" error. Were you ever able to solve this?

Mike Shkolnik commented Sep 05 '13, 5:56 p.m.

Just tried a third method - same result:

https://SERVER:PORT/jts/users/photo/USERID

Lukas Steiger commented Jul 25 '17, 3:23 a.m.

Have you ever found a solution on this?
I'm facing the same issue...

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Lukas Steiger (313●15●25) | answered Jul 25 '17, 6:47 a.m.

If you are writing a Jazz Plugin (e.g. a Dashboard Viewlet), you can use the following code to access a users profile (userId is the standard Jazz User ID that is used for the login as well, e.g. ADMIN):

getProfileImage: function(userId) {

var Util = com.ibm.team.dashboard.web.util.internal.Util;

var SERVICE_PHOTO_ID = "com.ibm.team.dashboard.viewlets.service.internal.members.IMemberPhotoService";

return Util.getServiceURL(SERVICE_PHOTO_ID, null, {userId: userId});

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Ralph Schoon commented Jul 25 '17, 3:28 p.m.

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Glad you found it.

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Ralph Schoon (61.8k●3●36●43) | answered Oct 16 '12, 8:40 a.m.
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edited Oct 16 '12, 9:03 a.m.

Hi, It should be possible using the plain java client libraries. The Eclipse user editor does it. I don't know how the REST API does it, but I have (untested) code that should do it for the Plain Java Client libraries.

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Aaron Allsbrook commented Oct 16 '12, 9:13 a.m.

Hi Ralph - Thanks for the response,

Although I would love to write it in java, I need to execute everything in javascript. Consequently I need the REST API.

Any other ideas?

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Ralph Schoon (61.8k●3●36●43) | answered Jul 25 '17, 3:25 a.m.
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See https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/maintaing-user-photos-with-the-plain-java-client-libraries/

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Lukas Steiger commented Jul 25 '17, 3:32 a.m.

Thank you Ralph, but I'm unfortunately limited to JavaScript based solutions...

Ralph Schoon commented Jul 25 '17, 3:45 a.m.

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The URI I get for the Photo is

https://server:port/rtc/service/com.ibm.team.repository.service.internal.IMemberPhotoService?contributorItemId=_SLSW8JQLEd-DaZzUk6UM4g&etag=_t0j6YuloEeKAzb0FcRrWoQ

Lukas Steiger commented Jul 25 '17, 4:21 a.m.

And how do you get the ItemID of the user, without using RTC SDK? OSLC lacks the ability to query the itemID of the user, I only get the jazz ID

Lukas Steiger commented Jul 25 '17, 6:48 a.m.

Thank you Ralph for your suggestion. I was unable to use the one you have suggested, but I found a service that accepts a userId. See my answer below....

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