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javascript proxy for the SharePoint User Profile web service

September 6th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

I’ve updated the javascript API for the SharePoint web services to version 1.0.1. This now includes support for the User Profile web service (/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx) allowing user profiles to be retrieved and updated.

The extra proxy is located in the SPAPI_UserProfile.js file. The following example demonstrates the usage of the proxy by getting the first name and preferred name of a user from their login name.

var profile = new SPAPI_UserProfile('')
var profileData = profile.getUserProfileByName('GLASGOW\\darrenj');

if (profileData.status == 200)
{
    var properties = profileData.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('PropertyData');
    var propertyValues = new Array();

    for (var i=0; i<properties.length; i++)
    {
        var propName = properties[i].getElementsByTagName('Name')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
        propertyValues[propName] = properties[i].getElementsByTagName('Value');
    }

    alert('First name is: ' + propertyValues['FirstName'][0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
    alert('Preferred name is: ' + propertyValues['PreferredName'][0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
}
else
{
    alert('There was an error: ' + profileData.statusText);
}

The javascript above parses the response XML and creates a hash table of XML nodes keyed by the property name. Note that a property may have more than one value so the hash table stores arrays of these values.

So to get the user’s first name we use:

propertyValues['FirstName'][0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

…and for the preferred name…

propertyValues['PreferredName'][0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

I’ll post some more examples on the use of the profile service when I get a chance.

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