Authentication information

Introduction

From any R code, it is possible to retrieve information about the user or API key currently running this code.

This can be used:

• From code running within a recipe or notebook, for the code to know who is running said code

• From code running with a plugin recipe, for the code to know who is running said code

Furthermore, the API provides the ability, from a set of HTTP headers, to identify the user represented by these headers. This can be used in the backend of a Shiny webapp, in order to securely identify which user is currently browsing the webapp.

Code samples

Basic usage

library(dataiku)

auth_info = dkuGetAuthInfo()

# auth_info is list dict which contains at least a "authIdentifier" member
print(auth_info$authIdentifier)

Other samples

• How to authenticate calls made from a Shiny webapp: https://github.com/dataiku/dss-code-samples/tree/master/_old/visualization/shiny/authenticate-calls

Reference documentation

See:

• https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/api/5.0/R/dataiku/reference/dkuGetAuthInfo.html

• https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/api/5.0/R/dataiku/reference/dkuGetAuthInfoFromBrowserHeaders.html

• https://doc.dataiku.com/dss/api/5.0/R/dataiku/reference/dkuGetAuthInfoFromRookRequest.html